Thursday, 13 September 2007

Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning issued today

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

AEST: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 09:10:26 PM

ORIGIN TIME -  1110Z 12 SEP 2007
COORDINATES -   4.5 SOUTH  101.3 EAST
LOCATION    -  SOUTHERN SUMATERA  INDONESIA
MAGNITUDE   -  8.2

SEA LEVEL READINGS INDICATE A TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED. IT MAY ALREADY HAVE BEEN DESTRUCTIVE ALONG SOME COASTS.

Source: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/

I hope it is a false alarm or if not that it is limited in its damaging effects to this suffering area of the world.
... AN INDIAN-OCEAN-WIDE TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT ...

A TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR

INDONESIA / AUSTRALIA / INDIA / SRI LANKA / THAILAND /UNITED KINGDOM / MALDIVES / MYANMAR / MALAYSIA / BANGLADESH / MAURITIUS / REUNION / SEYCHELLES / MADAGASCAR / SOMALIA / OMAN /PAKISTAN / IRAN / YEMEN / COMORES / CROZET ISLANDS / MOZAMBIQUE / KENYA / TANZANIA / KERGUELEN ISLANDS /SOUTH AFRICA / SINGAPORE

The above link doesn't seem to be working try
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/distant_tsunami/WEIO40/index.html

5 comments:

fingers said...

Update:
Jakarta, Indonesia -- Weather forecasters have issued a tsunami warning for wide areas of the Indian Ocean region and Australia after a powerful earthquake in Indonesia. The U.S. Geological Survey says the undersea quake has a preliminary magnitude of 7.9. The quake destroyed some homes in the town closest to the epicenter and could be felt 375 miles away in Jakarta.

It was also felt in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
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fingers said...

Update from AP press:
A wave of up to nine feet was reported to have hit Padang about 20 minutes after the quake, said Suhardjono, an official with Indonesia's meteorological agency, who goes by only one name.
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fingers said...

Here are latest details from Japan Tsunami Center

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 004
ISSUED BY THE JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY (JMA)
ISSUED AT 1335 12 SEP 2007 (UTC)

LOCATION COORDINATES ARRIVAL TIME AMPL
----------------- ------------ ------------ ----
COCOS 12.1S 96.9E 1228Z 12 SEP 0.1M
PADANG 1.0S 100.4E 1155Z 12 SEP 0.6M

So it seems that it will not be too bad fingers crossed
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fingers said...

Sep 12 09:53 AM US/Eastern

The meteorological agency has cancelled a tsunami warning for Indonesia.

(no offical source)
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Crowlie said...

Hi, sorry 'bout the heavy weather, things are fine and dandy down here in Melbourne. I dropped by to wave hello to another cycling blogger... :-)
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