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[tubby]

Oh that's good news. Looks like it was all a false alarm, still at least they looked to have reacted quick.

[red37]

Oh that's good news. Looks like it was all a false alarm, still at least they looked to have reacted quick.

You can hardly blame em mate.

[Emerald Red]

Waves of 20 inches aren't that frightening surely Feck me you get bigger waves than that on our local beach at low tide.

My mate was in Phuket (kata beach) when the last Tsunami hit Mick. He said there was no wave to speak of , just a surge of water that just kept on coming.

Oh, there was a wave alright. Villagers further in land in parts reported to have witnessed a wall of water that spanned well above the palm trees, which are about 30 feet tall, so you can imagine.

[woof woof !]

Waves of 20 inches aren't that frightening surely Feck me you get bigger waves than that on our local beach at low tide.

My mate was in Phuket (kata beach) when the last Tsunami hit Mick. He said there was no wave to speak of , just a surge of water that just kept on coming.

Oh, there was a wave alright. Villagers further in land in parts reported to have witnessed a wall of water that spanned well above the palm trees, which are about 30 feet tall, so you can imagine.

Well apparently not in Kata Beach, Phuket ER, my mate was staying in a house on a hill overlooking the beach and watched as people began running from what looked like was a fast rising tide .

Prior to the surge the sea did recede more than a 100 metere's from it normal position

'Course he didn't say what it was like in other areas as he wasn't actually there.

[Judge]

i think some folk are confusing some types of quake with a tsunami formation. if a plate of the earths crust is lifted up then down at seabed level (like in 2004), then it would probably generate a tsunami. but if the earth just rumbles deep within the crust, then a tsunami is unlikely

[Bad Bob]

Waves of 20 inches aren't that frightening surely Feck me you get bigger waves than that on our local beach at low tide.

My mate was in Phuket (kata beach) when the last Tsunami hit Mick. He said there was no wave to speak of , just a surge of water that just kept on coming.

Oh, there was a wave alright. Villagers further in land in parts reported to have witnessed a wall of water that spanned well above the palm trees, which are about 30 feet tall, so you can imagine.

Well apparently not in Kata Beach, Phuket ER, my mate was staying in a house on a hill overlooking the beach and watched as people began running from what looked like was a fast rising tide .

Prior to the surge the sea did recede more than a 100 metere's from it normal position

'Course he didn't say what it was like in other areas as he wasn't actually there.

That's right, Woof.  The water usually recedes significantly right before a tsunami surges a shore which is a big part of the hazard: people get curious and go down to the shore to have a look and get caught out.  Most tsunamis are like a massive, fast-rising tide not like a giant wall of foaming wave and surf...it's part of what makes them so deadly--they sneak up on you.

[Emerald Red]

Waves of 20 inches aren't that frightening surely Feck me you get bigger waves than that on our local beach at low tide.

My mate was in Phuket (kata beach) when the last Tsunami hit Mick. He said there was no wave to speak of , just a surge of water that just kept on coming.

Oh, there was a wave alright. Villagers further in land in parts reported to have witnessed a wall of water that spanned well above the palm trees, which are about 30 feet tall, so you can imagine.

Well apparently not in Kata Beach, Phuket ER, my mate was staying in a house on a hill overlooking the beach and watched as people began running from what looked like was a fast rising tide .

Prior to the surge the sea did recede more than a 100 metere's from it normal position

'Course he didn't say what it was like in other areas as he wasn't actually there.

Yeah, I seen that in footage. Sort of like a storm surge, only a lot faster and deadlier. Although if you look at that image, there is a fairly large wave surging up behind the smaller one. If you look at the distance and the boat, I'd say that wave is at least 15 feet tall or more. Lower land islands would have been f*cked.

[woof woof !]

Yeah that looks like some serious waves coming in ER, Where is that beach ?

[Emerald Red]

Yeah that looks like some serious waves coming in ER, Where is that beach ?

Not exactly sure where, but I'm sure that some of the people in that picture didn't make it off that beach alive. I've looked at some footage of it breaking onto land on Youtube, and for a few seconds you can actually see the characteristic wall of water you normally think of when imagining these things. It's scary to see. I paused one clip as someone filmed it rising before crashing in on land, and the wall of water must have been at least 20 feet. I'd have literally sh*t my trunks seeing that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NfKZAiWRoE#movie_player

Pause it at 34 seconds exactly. And they said the first wave was the smallest.

[tubby]

Looks like there has been another earthquake this time in Java, Indonesia. A local tsunami warning has been issued.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6598452.html

[tubby]

Deadly tsunami strikes in Pacific

A tsunami triggered by a strong quake in the South Pacific has killed more than 100 people in several islands.

At least 77 people were reported dead in Samoa, more than 25 in American Samoa and at least six in Tonga.

Residents and tourists fled to higher ground as whole villages were destroyed. Boats were swept inland and cars and people out to sea.

The 8.3-magnitude quake struck at 1748 GMT on Tuesday, generating 15ft (4.5m) waves in some areas of the islands.

The Samoa islands comprise two separate entities - the nation of Samoa and American Samoa, a US territory. The total population is about 250,000.

A general tsunami warning was issued for the wider South Pacific region but was cancelled a few hours later.

Separately on Wednesday a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck a different fault line off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 13 people.

The prime minister of Samoa, Tuila'epe Sailele Malielegaoi, said the latest death toll there was 77, including four overseas visitors, with 150 more people being treated in hospital.

He said he was shocked at the devastation.

"So much has gone. So many people are gone," he told Australia's AAP news agency.

He said there had been extensive damage but that hospitals were coping well and that he was considering aid offers from New Zealand and Australia.

"Had it happened in darkness, there could have been more disaster in terms of the number of those who died or are missing," he said.

US President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in American Samoa, enabling federal funding to be made available to help victims. He pledged a "swift and aggressive" government response.

False alarm

American Samoa Governor Togiola Tulafono said the effects of the tsunami would touch everyone.

"I don't think anybody is going to be spared in this disaster," he said.

Eni Faleomavaega, who represents American Samoa in the US Congress, said the waves had "literally wiped out all the low-lying areas in the Samoan islands".

He said the tsunami had struck too quickly for a full evacuation.

Samoa's Deputy Prime Minister Misa Telefoni told AAP that the ocean had receded, heralding the oncoming tsunami, "within five minutes" of the quake.

"With the location and the intensity... I don't know if anything better could have been done."

Officials at the Samoa Meteorology Division said many of those who died were killed by a second wave after they went to gather fish that had been washed up after the first.

Sirens reportedly blared out across the Samoan capital, Apia, again late on Tuesday but the warning was thought to be a false alarm.

Dr Lemalu Fiu, at a hospital in Apia, said the number of casualties was expected to rise as people arrived from coastal areas bringing reports.

Mr Telefoni said there were fears the major tourism areas on the west side of Upolu island - the eastern of the two main Samoan islands - had been badly hit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8281616.stm

[Judge]

tourist tells of fear in the samoa tsunami

further to bav's story above

[red37]

All kicking off Earthquake wise....been about 3 inside an hour. On Sky News - one of them was an 8.1 Mag. in the South Pacific.

More on SN as and when......




Tsunami Warning and Watch issued for expanding region of parts of South Pacific....

[red37]

Downscaled to 7.8 Mag.



F*cking pr1ck McKenzie's on now....switched it off.

[tubby]

me 7.8 is big!!! That was th one place I wanted to go on holiday too. Was thinking of Tonga. Don't think I'll be going this year now.