Australian East Coast placed on tsunami alert

[CK]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/101 ... east-coast

Placed an hour ago, may not amount to anything, but still a concern.

[Squawk]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1018252/tsunami-alert-for-australias-east-coast

Placed an hour ago, may not amount to anything, but still a concern.

Unbelievable if that was when the first warning was placed by ninemsn, CK.
The earthquake struck at 5.04pm Adelaide time
The Bureau put out the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre's first Tsunami Watch at 7.01pm Adelaide time
A potential Tsunami threat was issued at 7.15pm Adelaide time, noting that waves were expected to arrive at Lord Howe Island at 8.00am Adelaide time, NSW & Qld at 8.15am Adelaide time.
Marine warnings were issued for NSW, QLD, Lord Howe Island & Xmas Island at 8.18pm Adelaide time
A National Tsunami Warning was issued at 8.38pm Adelaide time
Tsunami Sea Level guages in proximity to South America were being reported by 9.20pm.

So where was ninemsn all this time?

[Psyber]

The Tsunami peaked at 20 cm passing NZ according to something I read on line recently.
Obviously ocean dynamics is about as well understood as climate science at present...

[Mr66]

Last thing I heard was that the 'outgoing tide' had 'diminished' the
chances of a tsunami.
Good news for the locals and good news for anyone (me) that has relatives along
that part of OZ.

[Squawk]

hot off the press for you, Psyber

Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

MEDIA:
PLEASE BROADCAST THIS INFORMATION IF REFERRING TO THE EARTHQUAKE IN NEWS REPORTS NO USE OF THE STANDARD EMERGENCY WARNING SIGNAL [SEWS]
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NATIONAL TSUNAMI EVENT SUMMARY
Issued by the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre [JATWC] at 5:42 PM EDT on Sunday 28 February 2010

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TSUNAMI SOURCE AND OBSERVATIONS:
An undersea earthquake of magnitude 8.8 occurred at Sun Feb 28 06:25:08 2010 UTC near THE COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE [latitude 35.320S longitude 72.930W ] posing a tsunami threat to Australia.

Sea level observations at the following locations confirmed a tsunami had been
generated:

Norfolk Island 0100UTC 0.5M
Port Villa [Vanuatu] 0.4M
Lautoka [Fiji Islands] 0.2M
Apia [Samoa] 2018UTC 0.16M
Southport[Tasmania] 0100UTC 0.17M
Darlington[Tasmania] 0100UTC 0.17M
Port Kembla [NSW] 0100UTC 0.14M
Gold Coast [QLD] 0200UTC 0.2M


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SUMMARY:

National No Threat Bulletin issued 6:21 PM EDT on Saturday 27 February 2010 National Watch Bulletin issued 7:45 PM EDT on Saturday 27 February 2010

[zipzap]

A regular SAFooty poster is currently in Chile on work - he's OK but hope to hear more from him soon, maybe he'll post on this thread

[JAS]

A regular SAFooty poster is currently in Chile on work - he's OK but hope to hear more from him soon, maybe he'll post on this thread

Hope so too zippy...let us all know if you here from him. If you or his family have reason to believe he was in the area they said on the news last night that Google have already set up a 'person finder' thing on their site...people can post a name they're looking for or info to say they're ok...might help if comms links out of the country are a problem for ordinary folks over there.

Is that news article really the first the public were told over there??? unbelivable if it was. Almost as soon as the earthquake hit both our news channels, Sky and BBC, as well as CNN were talking to people at tsunami and meteorological centres and warning of a possible tsunami reaching your East coast and NZ among many other places. They even had animations showing how it could wrap around Australia and affect the North and South coastlines as well.

Regards
JAS

[lesthemechanic]

A regular SAFooty poster is currently in Chile on work - he's OK but hope to hear more from him soon, maybe he'll post on this thread

I'm guessing when he gets power back on so he can charge his laptop ZZ. At least it appears he is OK, so that is good news.

[Squawk]

Is that news article really the first the public were told over there??? unbelivable if it was.JAS

No Jas, it wasn't. It seems as if ninemsn were either ultra slow, or CK caught an "update" of an earlier item. Hopefully it was the latter!

[zipzap]

A regular SAFooty poster is currently in Chile on work - he's OK but hope to hear more from him soon, maybe he'll post on this thread

I'm guessing when he gets power back on so he can charge his laptop ZZ. At least it appears he is OK, so that is good news.

Well he must be OK, he's updated his Facebook! Apparently he was 200k north of the action and it happened at night but he still felt it. Has felt a few aftershocks in Santiago but nothing too serious.

[lesthemechanic]

A regular SAFooty poster is currently in Chile on work - he's OK but hope to hear more from him soon, maybe he'll post on this thread

I'm guessing when he gets power back on so he can charge his laptop ZZ. At least it appears he is OK, so that is good news.

Well he must be OK, he's updated his Facebook! Apparently he was 200k north of the action and it happened at night but he still felt it. Has felt a few aftershocks in Santiago but nothing too serious.

Good news that all is OK.....the aftershocks were 6.8 on the Richter scale, that is an earthquake on its own.

[Squawk]

Aftershocks of 6.0+ are still occurring as recently as today.

[Squawk]

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