Here is a video of a surge in the Santa Cruz upper harbor, pretty amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MDnlcbRMaQ
I got a message from someone that lives on the west coast of Okinawa, he said Santa Cruz got more effect from the tsunami than they did there!
This information might just come in handy someday so I have to ask.
Tsunamis in the middle of an ocean are harmless to a boat. They only become dangerous as reach the shallower water near the shore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami#Characteristics
But from a boater's perspective the...