Another Earthquake in the Pacific

by Mattieu 15 Replies latest jw friends

  • Mattieu
  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    Oh no, not again!

    Keep your eyes peeled on this New Zealand site....the tsunami registered quite well on it last week.

    http://www.geonet.org.nz/tsunami/gauges/index.html

  • Mattieu
    Mattieu

    Cheers Leolaia, very informative website.

    Mattieu

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    Wow, there've been two magnitude 7+ earthquakes plus one magnitude 6 quake in the Vanuatu area, and one magnitude 6 quake in the Philippines, all in the past two hours!

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    The tsunami (if one is generated) is expected to hit New Caledonia in about a half hour. I hope everyone has a chance to react to the warning.

  • Mattieu
    Mattieu
    The second quake measured 7.3 on the Richter scale and came minutes after the initial 7.8-magnitude strike, the US Geological Survey said.

    Scary..... It wont be long for the big one to hit Australia..

    Mattieu.

  • shamus100
    shamus100

    Surely the end is coming....

  • dissed
    dissed

    Watch has been upgraded to a warning

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    I was just looking at the info at the USGS site....the two 7+ Magnitude quakes at Vanuatu are extremely shallow, at 30-35 km deep...the shallower the quake, the stronger the potential tsunami. The other quake was 580 km deep and thus is less of a risk.

    The tsunami is expected to reach Fiji in 10 minutes. Check out the webcam...might be a live view of the tsunami:

    http://www.fijiwebcam.com/coral_coast.htm

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    Check it out, I think that's the tsunami....the sea has massively retreated and that water is building up...

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