MikeAqua:

 

xpd:

 

(Very basic level) Fill your bath with water. Drop a stone in it close to one side. Ripple effect. Just because where you dropped the stone is on the other side of the bath does not mean any part of your bath avoids the ripple. 

 

I'm happy to know that "ripple" could be on its way, rather than have no notification and be out on a boat and have it come along, causing the boat to flip....

 

 

I think the scales are a little out of whack in your analogy.  The Pacific Ocean is vast, and we're at the opposite end from Russia.  Waves reduce in amplitude as they propagate out from a disturbance point.  That's because all the energy is being distributed across a lengthening wave front..  With enough distance, they dissipate altogether. A more accurate example would be something like: Throwing a jaffa (a giant jaffa if you're feeling bougie) in one end of a 25m swimming pool and seeing what the ripples are like at the shallow end.