This time it's for real.

ASWnut101 · 04-01-07, 06:39 PM

Update: Apparently, it was the Soloman Islands (Still in the Pacific) that were majorly affected. Many missing, and more presumed dead. The wave was quite a few meters high, and it took out villages and just about everything in the way.

That is the tusnami (in red) undersea event recorded by a DARTS II Tusnami Detection Buoy about two hundred miles off the coast of New Guinea.

baggygreen · 04-01-07, 07:01 PM

Having looked into it, we appear to have been basically untouched - Cooktown, in northern QLD is the closest point on the mainland to the quake, and apparently they received waves approx 10-20cm higher than normal.

The warning went right the way down the eastern seaboard, and even onto tassie, so thats one hell of a quake! given as it has been reported now at about 9 or so on the richter scale, i'll be surprised if there isnt a lot more damage than has been reported thus far.

Yahoshua · 04-01-07, 07:23 PM

News report:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070401/...fic_earthquake

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baggygreen Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canberra, ACT, Down Under (really On Top) Posts: 1,880 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Having looked into it, we appear to have been basically untouched - Cooktown, in northern QLD is the closest point on the mainland to the quake, and apparently they received waves approx 10-20cm higher than normal. The warning went right the way down the eastern seaboard, and even onto tassie, so thats one hell of a quake! given as it has been reported now at about 9 or so on the richter scale, i'll be surprised if there isnt a lot more damage than has been reported thus far.