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Earthquake in the Solomon Islands. News are saying it might trigger a tsunami directed at the east coast of Oz.

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Link to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre ... http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages.php?region=0 and the warning in question ... http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/message...7.04.01.213221

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You'd best get your board waxed then!:ohmy:

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Here's a bit more:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...366110823.html

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Warning on the BOM site

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20003.txt

Based on the magnitude and location of the earthquake,
tsunami could start affecting these locations at the following local
time:

Cooktown from 0931am 02/04/2007
Cairns from 0949am
Brisbane 1033am
Gladstone 1139am
Mackay 1144am

This bulletin is also available through TV and Radio
broadcasts and the Bureau's website at
www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/

Dangerous waves and currents may affect beaches, harbours and rivers for several
hours from the time of impact and low- lying coastal areas could be flooded.

The waves can be separated in time by between ten to sixty minutes and the first
wave of the series may not be the largest.

The Queensland State Emergency Service advises that people should stay away from
low lying coastal areas.

This warning will be updated by this morning.

This warning is also available through TV and Radio broadcasts; the Bureau's
website at www.bom.gov.au or call 1300 659 218

The Bureau of Meteorology and Emergency Management Queensland would appreciate
this warning being broadcast regularly.

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Well now it's all over and thankfully nothing happened, can someone clever explain why it would hit me after hitting Cairns but before Mackay. I don't understand. If I drop something in water the ripples spread out, they don't miss bits out and then go back to them :confused:

Am I being thick
























Answers on a postcard please.

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Thanks for the update, P. Hope that any damage has been minimal.

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they've cancelled some Sydney ferry services supposedly because of this
any excuse :frown:
http://www.131500.com.au/servicechan...?item_id=24178

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Last I heard was that the wave would possibly reach 15cms but that they were going to close all QLD beaches just in case :blink: I drove past my beach about 20 minutes later and there were still people surfing and generally doing beach type stuff. I think it's the laid back Aussie attitude ;)

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It's just arse covering after what happened after the boxing day Tsunami.

Now if anyone drops something heavy in NZ a Tsunami warning is issued.

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I don't think kiwi's are allowed heavy stuff are they :lol:

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hippy heaven

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It was largely butt covering I think, but at the same time it was a big quake, and since the Boxing Day one the idea is 'better safe than sorry'.
I can do without that sort of start to a Monday morning though.....can I have my breakfast now!

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does my butt look big in this?
thanks for the pm btw, i'm in full agreement, enjoy your shreddies

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our tide was a bit higher than it was supposed to be today........the ocean looks very angry though....dont think I have ever seen it like that before...very weird

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Hey you just hit post 6000 well done. Now go get a life.....:rofl:

Chatterbox.

Jo x

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T'would happen in the UK too.

People in England would be too busy spouting Shakespeare and traipsing around old cloisters investigating murders to notice a bit of swell at the White Cliffs of Dover.

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I told someone at work we were raising money for the Tsuanami a few years ago.

He wanted to know how much they cost.

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bloody hell so I did lol

SOD the Tsunami...I just past 6000 :)

oh and ty for pointinig that out lol

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:rofl: not funny really but it made me chuckle :blink:

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Triple M just stated that the first wave high is in the order of 20cm reducing for each from then, landfall in the NE.

Doesn't sound like much to me, but then I'm no expert. I would suggest not going in the sea in a blow-up floaty reading a paperback book and sipping your Pims, just in case you get overturned as it passes.

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Grr... Just had to get a taxi from Circular Quay back to Manly... :frown:

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about 80 bucks?!? ouch

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35...!

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really? my mate was robbed, good job he done it on expenses :D

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Straight up... Asked the cabbie how much he thought it would be and he quoted 30/35 and when we got to the car park by the wharf to get the 'Cruiser there was 32 on the clock... So 35 included the tip... :D :D

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i recall a mate coming from the city to our place at Queensie, and i'm sure it was about the $75/80 mark
thankfully he was on a business trip and his company had given him a cab charge card...

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Surely if it hadn't hit Cooktown by 9:30 it wasn't going to get anywhere close to Sydney Harbour later.:confused:

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$40 for another 2/3 k...!!! :lol:

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This has just been on our news, said the earthquake caused quite a few deaths :(

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i know, shocking! must have charged him tourists rates ;)

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Yup. Solomon Islands copped it big time unfortunately:(

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Ummmmm, at lunchtime I popped into Noosa to go to bank - big sign on ANZ door saying 'Closed due to Tsunami'! What???? Anyway, lots of people were complaining, apparently their head office is in Cairns, and with that closed, they all had to close!

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:lol:

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seens of utter chaos in cairns today. people literally fleeing for the hills. massive traffick jams on all the range roads.people just up and left work for the day.

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yeah my mate said that! Prob is, after watching what happened with the 2005 Tsunami, people are going to be scared. I know where I'd run too!

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the problem was that people left there cyclone proof houses and places of work which would afford some protection against a wave to jump into there cars and sit in a jam on the highway where they would have just got washed away.

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good point. I take it you stayed put? Will watch it on the news tonight.

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just kept on working. its normally the cyclones that send the locals into mass panic. they can be 1000 miles away and everyone runs round like headless chickens.

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Ste and I were in the city and we met up and then drove to the kids school, collected them and went home together - when you've got children you want to have them under your wing and to be together.