Thu, March 17, 2011

Video: Tsunami in Half Moon Bay

Posted by Michael La Guardia on Thu, March 17, 2011

Michael LaGuardia

Time-lapse photo of a dock at Princeton Harbor during a tsunami, shot over about 40 minutes from 12:00 on March 11, 2011. Waves had been affecting the harbor for about 4 hours. The white roller at the bottom of the post is about 4 inches high for scale. A friend even had trouble running through the ebb at the harbor mouth at around 3:00.

Comment 1
Fri, March 18, 2011 7:40am
David Chang
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Mike:

Very cool time-lapse. A few technical questions:

Where was the camera positioned? (on a boat mast?)
What camera/software did you use?

David

P.S. We were colleagues at Netscape / AOL many years ago! I was with the Calendar divlet.

Comment 2
Fri, March 18, 2011 1:20pm
Michael La Guardia
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Hi David! I remember you, of course.

I was using my iPhone with Stop Motion Recorder (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stopmotion-recorder/id373313019?mt=8). It’s fun software. I had it set to take one picture every 20 seconds (its maximum setting). This was two videos that I stitched together.

I was down at my boat in the harbor to do some work. I happened to have an F clamp that I used to hold the phone upright from on the dock itself. I lightly clamped the phone and laid the clamp on the dock.