Flight trackers say SYR9218, an Ilyushin Il-76T which departed Damascus, made a perilous descent in altitude and disappeared from radar near Akkar, Lebanon.

Forecast start time of tsunami:

* California
Fort Bragg 1110 PST Dec 5
Crescent City 1120 PST Dec 5
San Francisco 1210 PST Dec 5
* Oregon
Port Orford 1120 PST Dec 5
Brookings 1125 PST Dec 5
Charleston 1140 PST Dec 5

TSUNAMI WAVES ARE POSSIBLE FOR COASTS LOCATED WITHIN 300 KM OF THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER. - PTWC