Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Earthquakes and Tsunami Watches

From the CNMI Emergency Management Office:
TSUNAMI WATCH IS N EFFECT FOR MARIANA ISLANDS
BULLETIN NO. 001, October 8, 2009, 8:30 A.M.

The Emergency Management Office, Office of the Governor, would like to inform the general public that at 8:05 a.m. this morning, Thursday, October 08, 2009, there was an earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 8.0 on Richter scale located at latitude 13.0 degrees South 166.3 degrees East, Vanuatu Island region. This is about 2,400 miles South Southeast of Saipan.

A TSUNAMI WATCH IS N EFFECT FOR MARIANA ISLANDS.
Estimated time of arrival for the Tsunami Wave is 0323 UTC or 1:23 pm, CHST.

This is the 2nd tsunami watch we received in 2 weeks due to the American Samoa earthquake on September 30, 2009. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Vanuatu about 2 hours ago but there are no reports yet of any possible damage. Vanuatu is much closer to Saipan vs. American Samoa so we are all watching this one much closer! We hope that the people of Vanuatu are all right and that the tremors do not cause damaging waves elsewhere.
Okay, it looks like people are Twittering that they are okay in Vanuatu.
Take care and ti napu (literally, no waves)!
The Beachcomber

5 comments:

The Beachcomber said...

Looks like all warnings and watches for the tsunamis were just cancelled. Thank god. Ti napu

Deece said...

Thank God! Do you receive email updates from EMO?

The Beachcomber said...

Yes I do, Deece. Thank goodness that this did not generate any tsunamis. Take care!

Deece said...

How does one, like me, go about doing something like that?

The Beachcomber said...

For one thing, watch your fingers while serging. Hehehe!