[meteorite-list] Tsunami alert

From: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:46:30 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <138131.4178.qm_at_web56106.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Here in new zealand we are supposed to get hit in about an hour and a halfs time but there is none of the activity like you guys in Hawaii has and other than to avoid low lying areas there is no evacuation order. In some Islands down south is being taken more seriously
Cheers
DEAN



--- On Sat, 27/2/10, Matthew Martin <mmartin at meteoritetreasures.com> wrote:

> From: Matthew Martin <mmartin at meteoritetreasures.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Tsunami alert
> To: "Gary Fujihara" <fujmon at mac.com>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Received: Saturday, 27 February, 2010, 11:09 AM
> Things are getting pretty busy here
> on Oahu. Lines at gas stations are horribly long and
> several gas stations have run out of gas already.
> Boats are evacuating harbors...The City & County has
> evacuation busses going around the island. The coastal
> roads will close in an hour. There's still crazy
> people out surfing! And no, I'm not talking about
> Gary. ;) Police helicopters are out telling the
> surfers to go in?
>
> The Earth shook a lot yesterday... 8.8 in Chile last
> night, a 7.0 near Okinawa yesterday (no tsunami generated),
> and a 2.5 near the southeast coast of the Big Island
> yesterday. The Okinawa earthquake is the largest
> they've had in over 100 years.
>
> To my fellow list members in the islands, take care and
> stay safe.
>
> Aloha,
>
> Matthew Martin
> Kaneohe, Hawaii
>
>
>
> On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Gary Fujihara wrote:
>
> > Wow! Thanks for the link Darren. Looks
> like Hawaii misses the brunt of the full force, but our
> brothers and sisters in Marquesas, Tahiti and Samoa may feel
> it more.
> >
> > On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Darren Garrison wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:33:27 +0000, you wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> The sirens just went off; Hawaii is expecting
> a tsunami by 11:00 a.m. locally. We have about 5 hours
> to evacuate if needed. I'm bugging out after we pack
> and will be offline for a while. The big problem
> locally is if the power plant gets inundated, as it is in
> the flood plain/ central valley of Maui.
> >>
> >> A computer model of energy released here:
> >>
> >> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/02/27/magnitude-8-8-earthquake-off-chile-coast/
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