Another Tsunami Warning
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Topic: Another Tsunami Warning
Posted By: Zambezi
Subject: Another Tsunami Warning
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 12:04pm
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Another Tsunami Warning anyone know the expected wave hieght? ETA's? ------------- A man’s comfort in life can be measured by the quality of the toilet paper he uses to wipe his arse. |
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Posted By: felixx
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 12:07pm
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BREAKING NEWS: A 7.8 magnitude and a 7.3 magnitude earthquake have struck off the northwest of Santo, Vanuatu, and Pacific islands - including New Zealand - are on tsunami warnings of varying levels. The quakes hit at 11.03 NZ time and 15 minutes later and the epicentres were located around 373 km north-northwest of Santo, Vanuatu, at a depth of 33 km, the US Geological Survey reports. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii has issued a tsunami warning in effect for Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Kiribati, Kosrae, Wallis-Futuna and Howland-Baker. A tsunami watch, a lower level of alert, has been advised for both New Zealand and Australia as well as Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands and Indonesia. Any wave would reach New Zealand around 2.34pm. New Zealand Civil Defence is urging all people to clear beaches in Northland and East Cape and if in boats, to get off the water. Civil Defence has advised all fire, police and local councils to be on standby. Reporters in Samoa say they were initially unaware of the latest tsunami alert. A Fairfax photographer in Samoa, just recovering from a devastating tsunami caused by a quake has said that people in Samoa are now making their way to high ground in fear of a repetition of the waves that struck last week. Should a tsunami reach New Zealand, it will hit at the following times: ------------- Originally posted by TG LMAO felixx, you a sick puppy! hehe |
Posted By: kens
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 12:08pm
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EDIT :Better data above. ------------- The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. |
Posted By: kingyqueen
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 12:17pm
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its only a matter of time before we get some gnarly waves i reckon ------------- www.bradleysmoker.co.nz |
Posted By: ropo101
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 12:31pm
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im finishing work early and hitting the beach in the yak...Could be fun , could be another non event?? ------------- V8 Super Cars are back,Go the holdens!!! |
Posted By: JK
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 12:38pm
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Only an alert (ie 'watch' status) for NZ not a warning as such.
Might be a few out there going to 'watch' again then ------------- LedgeNZ LBG |
Posted By: Youngfisherman
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 12:42pm
| Im imagining (if it struck welly) the tsunami to look like waves from the old Top cat ships. |
Posted By: kingyqueen
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 12:44pm
might be like the boy who cried wolf...
next week we'll get another one somewhere which will be nothing and then
we'll get a gnarly big one when everyones over the warnings  ------------- www.bradleysmoker.co.nz |
ropo101 wrote:Posted By: kens
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 12:50pm
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It is now upgraded to a warning, rather than a watch. ------------- The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. |
Posted By: Zambezi
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 1:08pm
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http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/pacific/2009/pacific.2009.10.07.233404.txt - http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/pacific/2009/pacific.2009.10.07.233404.txt
------------- A man’s comfort in life can be measured by the quality of the toilet paper he uses to wipe his arse. |
Posted By: KeriBOI
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 1:18pm
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its now been confirmed tsunami hit vanu, 0.4m ------------- Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes; after that, who cares?! He's a mile away and you've got his shoes! |
Posted By: Capt Asparagus
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 1:23pm
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Interesting, they say "if on the water, get off it" yet surely the safest place to be would be well out in deeper water, as there the waves is just a long slow lift.... it is only dangerous and kicked up higher when it hits shallow waters. Surely they'd be better off saying"If on the water, go deeper!" wouldn't they? |
Posted By: kens
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 1:25pm
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I think they are concerned about unusual currents and such, but what you say makes sense. ------------- The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. |
Posted By: Finatic
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 1:27pm
Not the flashest day, but once again all dole bludgers are encouraged to get down to their local beach for a FREE cone... Icecream cone that is!
------------- What's the cheapest type of meat? Dear balls. They're under a buck. |
Posted By: JigNut
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 1:41pm
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Posted By: KeriBOI
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 2:03pm
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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has confirmed a small tsunami was generated by a large earthquake off Vanuatu but has now cancelled warnings, saying the danger is likely to have passed.
------------- Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes; after that, who cares?! He's a mile away and you've got his shoes! |
Posted By: one leg
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 2:17pm
In the Rodney times they had a photo of a guy and his van parked out on the sand at sandspit by the entrance waiting for the wave with the boot and bonnet up for the last one  i think he was selling Si's icecreams ------------- woman who say they are equal to men ,show lack of Ambition . |
Posted By: the croc
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 2:33pm
I was in Rarotonga last week for the last one. Was pretty crazy, the lagoon was pulsing all day, sucking out a couple of metres then rushing back in. The water was murky as all day. This is normally 2-3 foot of water at low tide.  Couple of minutes later  Harbour sucking out  Harbour fully sucked out  A few minutes later  Harbour sucked out (see how low the water is on the rocks in the background)  Water came back flush with the wharf. Luckily it was low tide when the biggest pulses hit. Just talked to mates over there who said they were going for a swim just before I heard about the 2nd warnings :? |
Posted By: the croc
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 2:37pm
In Raro everyone with larger boats headed out to sea. You can see by the photos above if they had stayed they would have most probably have sustained damage if they had stayed even when it wasn't that big. One large yacht got stuck in a whirlpool at the other wharf when the water that was sucking out started coming back in and collided with another boat that was trying to escape. About $2000 worth of damage apparently. |
Posted By: Catchelot
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 5:40pm
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Wow... Far out to above...
We just got back and hit the beach at Taurikura Bay at about around 12pm today where I rxd a txt to advise of the threat and warning...
Ok it has been tamed down but good to get the warning in case of evac...( or even not knowing)
Just goes to show how quick and emergency can arise, albeit from overseas...
The wave across the pacific/Indo can be fast and small, ie, 0.5 - 1.0 metres and once it finds land it builds and slows in the shallows and climbs and grows some more before it spills into a basin... the first wave lifts and drags lots out, the second grows and comes in even higher and... you get the meaning..
So good to have cell phones, radios and warning systems...
Bless the Vanuatuans and hope all survived untouched... ------------- "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau |
Posted By: kingyqueen
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2009 at 9:25pm
PMSL!!!cones for everybody (if you can be bothered getting off the couch)
anywho...
thems some impressive pics ------------- www.bradleysmoker.co.nz |
Posted By: kens
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 9:09am
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Those photos are great, I am sure we all know a harbour or estary around here that we can imagine the result of these sort of surges on (think any marina), it just shows that the image of giant waves crashing around is pretty flawed and not really what you need to worry about. ------------- The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. |
Posted By: herby
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 9:28am
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. What?
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Posted By: kens
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 9:37am
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Well, a lot of people seem to have an image that either there are giant waves or there is nothing, a tidal surge can be just as devastating. I think in the general population there is little undestanding of the simple power and weight involved in water, if a 1 meter tidal surge hit any low lying area it would cause huge damage, but I think few people would think that there was going to be a problem, as shown by the numbers who turned up on the beaches last week.
Get my meaning now? ------------- The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. |
Posted By: herby
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 9:41am
| I dunno man, I'd be pretty worried about 'giant waves crashing around' myself, and as the devestation of the Boxing Day tsunami showed, those images aren't exactly, ya know, 'flawed'. |
Posted By: kens
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 10:05am
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Yeah I would be too, but that was within a very close radius of the quake, if you expect that to occur here from a quake in tonga or vanuatu then you will be waiting a long time, and you will have a "flawed" expectation of the danger. If you think that standing on a beach and feeling safe if there isnt a 3 metre "wave" crashing on the shore is going to save you from a 1m tidal surge then go to it, I wont be there. ------------- The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. |
Posted By: herby
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 10:23am
 I'm getting mixed messages |
Posted By: kens
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 10:32am
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well sorry if you cant comprehend english. ------------- The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. |
Posted By: herby
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 10:36am
Don't apologise, just go easy on the self contradiction aye  .
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Posted By: _Jimmy_
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 10:38am
| ah? waves crashing would give me the ****s.. what you on about kens? |
Posted By: kens
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 10:57am
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Well I am going to repeat, I am trying to be clear here, I think that people have an impression that the ONLY danger is from giant waves crashing on the beach, which would scare the **** out of me, BUT CLEARLY as seen in the previous photos there is a great danger from tidal surges. It was always very unlikely that we would get "giant waves" here from the recent quakes, but much more likely that we would get smaller surges which are capable of immense damage.
Seems pretty simple to me, dont stand on the beach during a tsunami warning. ------------- The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. |
Posted By: the croc
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 12:13pm
I would definitely agree with that. A friend of a friend took the above photos. I was back at the house where I was staying when the above was happening. The trouble was the Rarotonga Tsunami Warning system failed miserably. Two hours after the first reports were coming in about damage in Samoa on the internet the local police were still denying anything was happening at all. We were pretty confused with what to do. I think the general public are pretty confused about what a tsunami looks like anyway. Blame Hollywood but it's not a large standing wave that crashes directly onto the land. It's normally just a suck back of water and then a large surge. These photos show it pretty well: .  
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Posted By: kens
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 12:25pm
------------- The past, the present and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 12:45pm
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why didn't you make it then rather than labouring with contradiction and other none sense statements?....i do not think Herby needs to get a better grasp on English. PS....Tsunamsi make snapper hungry....
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Posted By: Goneburger
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 1:14pm
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Awesome photo's Croc..!! Bloody scary though, assume this was a "small surge" coming into beach at Raro and did it kind of stop where it spalshed or just wash around people's ankles in these shots...... otherwise we 'd be looking at dead people walking you'd think....and the camera man.... how'd he keep the camera dry..??
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Posted By: Finatic
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 1:26pm
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Posted By: the croc
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 2:59pm
Oh na sorry those photos just above were from the Boxing Day Tsunami in Thailand a few years back, no idea who took them. They were just to illustrate what a large tsunami looks like. This first set of photos were from last week, where it only just stopped short of coming onto land as you can see in the last photo in the set |
Posted By: swanie
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 3:20pm
Wish I'd known you were out yesterday mate, I was floating around in about 45m North of Waiheke. Looking at schools of fish scattered everywhere, couldn't snag a bite. No gannets or dolphins to be found, tried everything from creatures to nuc chooks to lucanus, even dirty old pillies and squid. Did the range of spots, Crusoe, Rangi channel and Taka cliffs. 7hrs on the water for 1 gurnard and 1 snapper.  Listening to now casting all day and not one mention of a tsunami warning! Just as well it never eventuated cause I was holding on to the boat on the ramp at the exact time it was suppose to be here.
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Posted By: JigNut
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 3:24pm
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Is it true that earthquakes make fish go to ground??
The old folk down this way don't even bother with puka fishing after earthquakes up to a week after ...------------- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fans-Of-Synit-Rods/137662896327800 |
Posted By: Kezza
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 3:33pm
| stinko Pinko Swannie - we didn't head out till 1pm and headed up Kawau ways from Gulf Harbour......lots of sporadic bomb ups where we'd pluck one or two then spotted the mother lode out a bit wider....champange fishing at it's best!! |
Posted By: A C
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2009 at 4:34pm
Wicked pictures croc - I bet that old drunk Jack didn't move from his stool at the end of the bar did he ! ------------- Aye-Aye cloth eyes. |