Posted on 04/01/2007 2:40:17 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
This took place near the famous WW2 "slot" used by the Japanese and American Navies to attack each other. Also near Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Corsair squadron on Munda.
Lots of WW2 history in these islands.
Key for quakes is to either be really advanced such that you're building high-quality buildings specifically engineered to be quake-proof, or so backwards theres hardly anything to fall on you.
Worst is 2nd world/3rd world shoddy concrete lowrise construction, like Pakistan, Turkey, Armenia, etc.
Tsunami alert for Queensland
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21488361-952,00.html
Big earthquakes in the Solomons tend to come in pairs, hours or days apart, too.
Tsunami Advisory Hawaii
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/hawaii/2007/hawaii.2007.04.01.213506.txt
Is that where the swarm of earthquakes of the past week have been?
Tsunami Warning for Solomon Is., Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Nauru, Chuuk, New Caledonia, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Australia, Indonesia, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Marshall Is.
Tsunami Watch for: Guam, Fiji, N. Marianas, Yap, Howland-baker, Wallis-futuna, Belau, Tokelau, Kermadec is, Samoa, New Zealand, Marcus Is., Wake Is., American Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Cook Islands, Philippines, Jarvis Is., Palmyra Is., Johnston Is., Japan
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages.php?id=pacific.2007.04.01.213221
Not really any notable swarms last week and there were no quakes in the vicinity of this one of any note.
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Yes, going to Guadalcanal was one of my favorite cruises for that reason. We came south from Okinawa, passed through the Bouganville Strait into New Georgia Sound (The Slot) past Savo Island into Ironbottom Sound and anchored off Point Cruz on Guadalcanal. There was still a lot of old, rusted equipment around in 1986. I don't know what's left now in that climate.
2239Z PTWC Update:
TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 003
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 2239Z 01 APR 2007
THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT
ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.
NOTE: AREAS TO THE NORTH OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS SHOULD NOT BE SIGNIFICANTLY
AFFECTED
... A TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH REMAIN IN EFFECT ...
A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR
SOLOMON IS. / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / VANUATU / NEW CALEDONIA / NORTHEASTERN
AUSTRALIA / TUVALU / KIRIBATI / FIJI /
A TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR
KERMADEC IS / NEW ZEALAND /
FOR ALL OTHER PACIFIC AREAS, THIS MESSAGE IS AN ADVISORY ONLY.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 2040Z 01 APR 2007
COORDINATES - 8.6 SOUTH 157.2 EAST
LOCATION - SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAGNITUDE - 8.1
MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY
HONIARA 15CM ZERO-TO-PEAK OBSERVED AT 21:37 GMT
EVALUATION
SEA LEVEL READINGS INDICATE A TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED. IT MAY HAVE
BEEN DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS NEAR THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER AND
COULD ALSO BE A THREAT TO MORE DISTANT COASTS. AUTHORITIES SHOULD
TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THIS POSSIBILITY. THIS
CENTER WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR SEA LEVEL DATA TO DETERMINE THE
EXTENT AND SEVERITY OF THE THREAT.
FOR ALL AREAS - WHEN NO MAJOR WAVES ARE OBSERVED FOR TWO HOURS
AFTER THE ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL OR DAMAGING WAVES HAVE NOT
OCCURRED FOR AT LEAST TWO HOURS THEN LOCAL AUTHORITIES CAN ASSUME
THE THREAT IS PASSED. DANGER TO BOATS AND COASTAL STRUCTURES CAN
CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL HOURS DUE TO RAPID CURRENTS. AS LOCAL
CONDITIONS CAN CAUSE A WIDE VARIATION IN TSUNAMI WAVE ACTION THE
ALL CLEAR DETERMINATION MUST BE MADE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
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
BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.
THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL
FURTHER NOTICE.
THE JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY MAY ALSO ISSUE TSUNAMI MESSAGES
FOR THIS EVENT TO COUNTRIES IN THE NORTHWEST PACIFIC AND SOUTH
CHINA SEA REGION. IN CASE OF CONFLICTING INFORMATION... THE
MORE CONSERVATIVE INFORMATION SHOULD BE USED FOR SAFETY.
THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS
FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/pacific/2007/pacific.2007.04.01.222651.txt
TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 003
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER
1243 PM HST 01 APR 2007
TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII
SUBJECT - FINAL TSUNAMI ADVISORY
THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY IS ENDED FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII EFFECTIVE
AT 1243 PM HST.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 1040 AM HST 01 APR 2007
COORDINATES - 8.6 SOUTH 157.2 EAST
LOCATION - SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAGNITUDE - 8.1 MOMENT
MAGNITUDE - 7.6 RICHTER
EVALUATION
THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HAS CANCELLED THE REGIONAL
TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH IT ISSUED FOR MUCH OF THE
PACIFIC EXCEPT FOR AREAS NEAREST THE TSUNAMI SOURCE.
BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA THERE IS NO DESTRUCTIVE
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII AND THE ADVISORY FOR HAWAII IS ALSO
ENDED.
HOWEVER... SOME COASTAL AREAS IN HAWAII COULD EXPERIENCE SMALL
NON-DESTRUCTIVE SEA LEVEL CHANGES AND STRONG OR UNUSUAL CURRENTS
LASTING UP TO SEVERAL HOURS. THE ESTIMATED TIME SUCH EFFECTS
MIGHT BEGIN IS
0635 PM HST 01 APR 2007
THIS WILL BE THE FINAL MESSAGE ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.
I don't know. I hadn't heard anything.
Leading to the Christmas tsunami was a string of fairly large quakes all along the faultlines in that region. It got fairly bumpy all around Australia for some months and then came the 8.5. There have been some quakes along the fault lines since the last new moon. Deserves watching, especially the animals, who are apparently smart about these things.
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This might explain it:
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Update time = Sun Apr 1 22:48:04 UTC 2007
MAP 6.7 2007/04/01 20:47:32 -7.133 155.661 10.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAP 7.6 2007/04/01 20:39:56 -8.474 156.950 10.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS
Speaking of earthquakes, I see central AK has had 10 today. The last two just happened a few minutes ago. I check the AK earthquake site at least once a day. :)
3.8
There was one near Fort Yukon, which is kind of rare, and another near the future Alaska-Siberia bridge. It is somewhat active which is not surprising since it's the time of the FULL MOON. Ignore the expert who says there is no correlation.
Or, the snow slid off somebody's roof. :)
The tsunami followed after a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck in the New Georgia Islands region, which had prompted the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre to issue a tsunami warning.
Solomons police spokesperson Mick Spinks said there has been sketchy reports of damage caused by a tsunami in areas near the quake.
"There have been no reports of casualties yet but you have to bear in mind the communications with many areas is poor," Spinks said.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20070402004726161C627159
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