CNN is announcing a Tsunami warning for these areas based on an 8.0 earthquake.
It is good there is a warning system now. Let’s all pray is really embarrassingly wrong.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usmgas.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4970308.stm
We might see a Tsunami.
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center statement at here
There was an earthquake. It may or may not have created a tsunami. Still, it is a good time to give the emergency plan a trial run.
If there is one, impact in Fiji in 15 minutes or so of this post. Sooner, maybe.
Good thing Keith Richards fell out of that palm tree, eh?
Hoping nothing happens.
Keith caused an 8.0 by falling out of a palm tree?
It was his wallet in his shirt pocket that did the real damage.
Better safe than sorry.
The ABC news at 8.00 this morning said that the tsunami warning had been cancelled.
We leave for Fiji a week from tomorrow. Major relief when the warning was cancelled, I’ll tell ya. I bought travel insurance an hour after the quake. I will never procrastinate on buying it again!
There’s been quite a bit of angst this morning in New Zealand at how ineffective the tsunami warning system seemed to be: link. Apparently most people who heard about the warning (issued in the early hours of the morning) found out about it from foreign news media or concerned relatives telephoning in.
I’m pretty sure they’ve been serviced by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center for a long time. It was the Indian Ocean that didn’t have one which proved so costly.
Still it’s good nothing much came of it.
Worse yet, the Associated Press is reporting that Tonga never even got a warning.
Well, nothing like a drill to illuminate holes in the system. I’m glad they’re finding them on a false alarm.
Australia’s heavily populated south-eastern corner has a great tsunami defence - New Zealand. 
This was a great to-do over here. Not because of a possible tsunami (it ended up being a slight swell at the east coast) but because the international media created such a great bally-hoo about it that folks were being called from overseas and told to take to the hills. Our Civil Defence crew just saw it wasn’t a major thing, cancelled the warning before we woke up, and left it at that. Some egg on faces over that.
There were people leaving their homes because of frantic calls they’d received. Ah well, at least they weren’t heading to the beaches to watch it coming in.
I have never been so happy that my concern was misplaced.
