20250730 Tsunami (?) At Drayton Harbor
2025-07-29 an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula, triggered tsunami warnings covering much of the Pacific Ocean, including Blaine, WA where I live on Drayton Harbor. The NOAA US Tsunami warning system estimated the first wave would reach Bellingham, WA (25 miles south) at 01:10am PST on 2025-07-30 with a maximum height of less than 1 foot.
I sat in my front yard looking out over Drayton Harbor, towards White Rock, BC and took videos in case there was anything to see. The harbor was very calm with stretched out reflections of shore lights. In the shots below note particularly the bright tower near the center, the Oceana PARC building in White Rock, BC some 5.5 miles from my viewing spot. I estimated the tsunami would arrive at Blaine some 16 minutes after Bellingham.
What I saw and recorded was a gradual disappearance and then return of the reflection of lights in Drayton Harbor, which I can only suppose is somehow due to the tsunami.
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| View from south side of Drayton Harbor to White Rock, BC July 30, 2025 from 1:28am to 1:42am at 16x normal speed. A car passes at 6 seconds. At 38 sec my finger obscures left side of image temporarily. Focus on the bright tower left of center, noting the gradual disappearance and return of it's reflection |