Tsunami warning for north QLD!

[Dozer]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070401/23/12yno.html

I hope it isn't a joke.......

[GravityGuru]

Not a joke, On channel 9 now, Maybe a good excuse to head up into the mountain for some DH in cairns

[Alec McJo]

It's been canceled, I just rung the fucking radio station and they wont announce it. They say it "has to come from the Bureau of Metereology". Get fucked I say, think of all the old people that are going to be panicking.

Stupidest thing I find is they spoke to BOM shortly after I rung, and BOM is still to stupid to find out its been canceled!

[Dozer]

From Adrian (farkin member) - part one

IDQ20003Australian Government Bureau of MeteorologyQueenslandTransmitters serving the coastal area from ... to ... are REQUESTED TO USE THESTANDARD EMERGENCY WARNING SIGNAL BEFORE BROADCASTING THIS MESSAGETOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCASTQUEENSLAND TSUNAMI WARNINGIssued at 8:24am on Monday the 2nd of April 2007For people in coastal areas of northeast Queensland.TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCASTTSUNAMI BULLETINIssued at07:50 am EST on Monday 2 April 2007TSUNAMI THREAT TO COASTAL AREA/ISLAND.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre [PTWC]in Hawaiihas detected an undersea earthquake near Solomon Islands and has issued aTsunami Bulletin.The earthquake has also been detected by Geoscience Australia.There is a possible tsunami threat to Willis and Barrier ReefIslands.Based on the magnitude and location of this earthquake, tsunamicould start affecting these locations at the following local time:Willis Island from 0832am

Part two

02/04/2007TSUNAMI THREAT TO EASTERN AUSTRALIA and Willis and Barrier ReefIslands, Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands.Based on the magnitude and location of the earthquake,tsunami could start affecting these locations at the following localtime:Cooktown from 0931am 02/04/2007Cairns from 0949amBrisbane 1033amGladstone 1139amMackay 1144amThe Bureau is seeking confirmation that tsunami havebeen generated. Tsunami Warnings will be issued, ifnecessary, by the Regional Offices of the Bureau inaffected States. People in coastal areas in threatenedregions should then listen for further advice from stateemergency service authorities.People in coastal areas in threatened regions should moveout of the water and away from low lying foreshore areas,and should then listen for further advice from stateemergency service authorities.The earthquake occurred at 20:40 UTC at Latitude08.6 South , Longitude 157.2 East,with magnitude 8.1This bulletin is also available through TV and Radiobroadcasts and the Bureau's website atwww.bom.gov.au/tsunami/Dangerous waves and currents may affect beaches, harbours and rivers for severalhours from the time of impact and low- lying coastal areas could be flooded.The waves can be separated in time by between ten to sixty minutes and the firstwave of the series may not be the largest.The Queensland State Emergency Service advises that people should stay away fromlow lying coastal areas. This warning will be updated by this morning.This warning is also available through TV and Radio broadcasts; the Bureau'swebsite at www.bom.gov.au (http://www.bom.gov.au/) or call 1300 659 218The Bureau of Meteorology and Emergency Management Queensland would appreciatethis warning being broadcast regularly.

[Rik]

http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/qld/
Get it straight from the source.

[fattyandthepiemakers]

Never the less I'm not keen for a swim down at the Strand today!

[Ty]

i'm right on the beach just north of Port Douglas and we've gotten no-more than the forcasted south-eastly change.

last month I dived the area that got hammered in southern Thailand and you can see massive amounts of damage on the reef there, really makes you relise the power of these things.

(on that note, last saturday i was diving on the pacific side of Agincourt Reef (open ocean side) and it would of been massive dramas if we had even the smallest surge out there)

[Dozer]

i'm right on the beach just north of Port Douglas and we've gotten no-more than the forcasted south-eastly change.

last month I dived the area that got hammered in southern Thailand and you can see massive amounts of damage on the reef there, really makes you relise the power of these things.

(on that note, last saturday i was diving on the pacific side of Agincourt Reef (open ocean side) and it would of been massive dramas if we had even the smallest surge out there)

That would've been very interesting seeing the reef after a tsunami (interesting any time too). What type of things does it do to a reef? Totally destroy it or smash the crap out of one side? I've never heard anything about that stuff.

I'm hoping the tsunami doesn't evolve into anything more than a small splash because my father in law is on a fishing boat 30 hours out to sea from Gladstone.......no phone reception and apparently the radio on the boat has some reliability issues. Crossing my fingers........

[Alec McJo]

I'm hoping the tsunami doesn't evolve into anything more than a small splash because my father in law is on a fishing boat 30 hours out to sea from Gladstone.......no phone reception and apparently the radio on the boat has some reliability issues. Crossing my fingers........

DW mate, in the past half an hour theres been several boats that have headed out from our inlet for fishing trips.

[Ty]

on the front side of the reef (mostly fringe reef) there were no large soft corals or any long tube worms and the rest of the reef looked like an avanlanch of hard coral bits had crashed though it

on the flip side, the receeding wave pulled heaps of nutrients off the land so there were massive amounts of small fish and lots of new coral growth.

all a circle of life thing I guess.

[Rik]

I'm hoping the tsunami doesn't evolve into anything more than a small splash because my father in law is on a fishing boat 30 hours out to sea from GladstoneNothing to worry about, even if the mother of tsunamis wiped out the coast. Out at sea a tsunami is just like an elevated body of water travelling along... in a boat you'd not even notice it as you'd rise up the metre or two, sit on the plateu of water and then drop the half-hour or so later after it passes. It's only when the water reaches land that it builds up to be big wave of destruction.