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
Thursday, 13 September 2007
Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning issued today
Posted by TweedCoastTreadly at Thursday, September 13, 2007
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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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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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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
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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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Sep 12 09:53 AM US/Eastern
The meteorological agency has cancelled a tsunami warning for Indonesia.
(no offical source)
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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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