When the Pacific Ocean had an “emotional day”
Ah, the whims of nature. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Russia (because of course, what better place for a geological drama?) activated the tsunami alert in half the planet, including Mexico. But our president Claudia Sheinbaum, in a tone that mixed official seriousness with “calm down, people,” announced that… absolutely nothing happened here. A tsunami? Nah, just a “slight rise in sea level” so as not to look bad. Come on, not even to get your feet wet.
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In the most exciting session since Netflix canceled your favorite series, the Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Morales Ángeles, explained with the calm of someone announcing the weather forecast that the biggest risk was… waiting. Yes, because the sea was only going to “rise a little”. How much is “a little”? 30 centimeters, according to Japan. I mean, enough to scare a crab, but not enough to justify pulling out the unicorn-shaped life preserver you bought on Amazon.
“There is no harm,” Sheinbaum repeated, as if trying to convince a child that the monster under the bed does not exist. Meanwhile, in Russia and Japan, the waves did play at being destructive. Irony? The quake occurred in Kamchatka, a remote peninsula where bears outnumber humans. There, the tsunami was real; here, a simple “awareness exercise”.
And meanwhile, in the rest of the world…
Honolulu activated its sirens as if it were the premiere of a disaster movie, and in Hokkaido they received waves of 30 centimeters (or “a foot”, for those who measure danger in shoe sizes). Mexico, on the other hand, limited itself to: “Thank you for participating.” Of course, the alert served to remind us that we have protocols. Would they work in a real scenario? Let’s hope we don’t find out soon.
Moral: Sometimes the Pacific just wants attention. Or maybe he was testing if we still have emergency WhatsApp installed. The truth is that, this time, the scare was more virtual than literal. But hey, at least they provided a theme for the family group.
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