As you may have heard by now, there was a massive 8.2 magnitude earthquake off the gulf of Alaska and the whole west coast is on tsunami alert. The tsunami is suppose to reach parts of Alaska now, including Kodiak and other parts.
Danny Sullivan at Google has been up all night watching the Google search alerts to make sure they are providing accurate and useful information. He posted on Twitter about their SOS alerts, which they do for important regional alerts for the past years.
Our Google SOS alerts are active for those searching for #Tsunami information following the Alaskan earthquake. pic.twitter.com/gwq12E2AeS
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) January 23, 2018
Here's the latest #tsunami watch information for California. You can also get for other areas with these links:
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) January 23, 2018
Alaska: https://t.co/M41DUTsAG4
Washington: https://t.co/rHnIvB4Moa
Oregon: https://t.co/IgEIQEAJxd
California: https://t.co/X3fqelOw4h pic.twitter.com/0CoCJ3JHKR
Google's #Tsunami data comes from the @NWS & may help as the NWS sites seems swamped. But you can find them direct at:https://t.co/HD573OBoXdhttps://t.co/TXQIVaRIRu
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) January 23, 2018
and follow @NWS_NTWC
Google is working on making this types of alerts even more accurate but it is not perfect as it doesn't have all locations covered in this instance:
I did look and will pass it on. Not sure why that's not triggering.
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) January 23, 2018
I've been watching the search results for [tsunami warning] and it has been clean. I have yet to see false tweets or news posts, so Google has been pretty good at keeping the results here relevant, useful and factual - at least for now.
For the many of you in the tsunami's path, please be safe!
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Update: Some good news:
BREAKING: National Tsunami Center cancels tsunami warning after Alaska quake, but tsunami advisory remains for part of the state
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 23, 2018
