ANOTHER BIG ONE...7.8 QUAKE

[feederband]

So if they were to have a wave most would be sleeping...

[furluvcats]

Fox News and CNN both have good coverage of this...

[MiamiensisWx]

Any new information? Hopefully this won't be so bad...

[Brent]

The spokesman on MSNBC says it doesn't look like there will be a "widespread" Tsunami like December of 2004.

[furluvcats]

Yikes feederband...I'm sure they have to have some kind of siren system, right?

[feederband]

The spokesman on MSNBC says it doesn't look like there will be a "widespread" Tsunami like December of 2004.

Lets hope so..

[feederband]

Yikes feederband...I'm sure they have to have some kind of siren system, right?

Who knows..

[MiamiensisWx]

The spokesman on MSNBC says it doesn't look like there will be a "widespread" Tsunami like December of 2004.

Good! Looks like we can breathe perhaps slightly easier. However, it won't be good for those in the immediate area.

[furluvcats]

new info in on CNN

[MiamiensisWx]

What is the new information?

[feederband]

Nothing new yet...Within the hour we should know..

[stormie]

Latest CNN update
Warnings issued for
Tonga
nueay (spelling? sorry...)
America Samoa - 1:20 EDT ETA for potential Tsunami
Samoa
Figi - 2:04 EDT ETA for potential Tsunami

Watch issued for
Hawaii

[Janice]

I think it is a waiting game with the pros too. They are still talking about waiting to see. So, I guess we will just have to wait. CNN said absolutely, just now, that there could be aftershocks.

[stormie]

David Applegate, USGS, on CNN, also states that potential Tsunami event unlikely to be at Dec 2004 scale.

[feederband]

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 002
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1631Z 03 MAY 2006

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT
ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.

... A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT ...

A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR

TONGA / NIUE / AMERICAN SAMOA / SAMOA / WALLIS-FUTUNA / FIJI

FOR ALL OTHER PACIFIC AREAS, THIS MESSAGE IS AN ADVISORY ONLY.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 1527Z 03 MAY 2006
COORDINATES - 19.9 SOUTH 174.2 WEST
LOCATION - TONGA ISLANDS
MAGNITUDE - 7.8

EVALUATION

IT IS NOT KNOWN THAT A TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED. THIS WARNING IS
BASED ONLY ON THE EARTHQUAKE EVALUATION. AN EARTHQUAKE OF THIS
SIZE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE A DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI THAT CAN
STRIKE COASTLINES IN THE REGION NEAR THE EPICENTER WITHIN MINUTES
TO HOURS. AUTHORITIES IN THE REGION SHOULD TAKE APPROPRIATE
ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THIS POSSIBILITY. THIS CENTER WILL CONTINUE
TO MONITOR SEA LEVEL GAUGES NEAREST THE REGION AND REPORT IF ANY
TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY IS OBSERVED. THE WARNING WILL NOT EXPAND
TO OTHER AREAS OF THE PACIFIC UNLESS ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED
TO WARRANT SUCH AN EXPANSION.

ESTIMATED INITIAL TSUNAMI WAVE ARRIVAL TIMES. ACTUAL ARRIVAL TIMES
MAY DIFFER AND THE INITIAL WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST. THE TIME
BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE TSUNAMI WAVES CAN BE FIVE MINUTES TO ONE HOUR.

LOCATION COORDINATES ARRIVAL TIME
-------------------------------- ------------ ------------
TONGA NUKUALOFA 21.0S 175.2W 1551Z 03 MAY
NIUE NIUE IS. 19.0S 170.0W 1557Z 03 MAY
AMERICAN SAMOA PAGO PAGO 14.3S 170.7W 1620Z 03 MAY
SAMOA APIA 13.8S 171.8W 1622Z 03 MAY
WALLIS-FUTUNA WALLIS IS. 13.2S 176.2W 1643Z 03 MAY
FIJI SUVA 18.5S 178.5E 1704Z 03 MAY

BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.
THE TSUNAMI WARNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS
FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIF

[MiamiensisWx]

I guess we'll keep waiting...

[Janice]

Yes, but you know? With the last tsunami and Katrina, I think nature will do what it wants and we can guess, but it could be worse than the 2004. How can we possible predict what nature will do in the end.

We had hundreds of pros predicting last years season and how many of them predicted what would actually happen. You hear a couple people on CNN give their opinions, and what about other opinions?

[feederband]

Yes, but you know? With the last tsunami and Katrina, I think nature will do what it wants and we can guess, but it could be worse than the 2004. How can we possible predict what nature will do in the end.

We can't..

[MiamiensisWx]

Unfortunately, I agree, Janice. Nature just does what it does. It is the destruction that is the bad part.

[MiamiensisWx]

How can we possible predict what nature will do in the end.

We can guess, but we DEFINATELY cannot ultimately predict what will happen.