[starkhorn]

Folks,

I heard there was a big earthquake near Tonga and that a Tsunami warning was raised. Thankfully it seems the Tsunami didn't happen.

Hope all ENZ'ers and everyone else are ok out there and nothing too nasty happened to anyone! :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4970308.stm

Cheers
Starkhorn

[StevieD]

Danger passed - thank goodness

[Juniper]

Apparently the Gisborne area was the part that might have been endangered:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3657203a10,00.html

[Juniper]

This is a duplicate post, since there is another thread about the tsunami warning, but I wanted the info to get out there...

It seems that the tsunami warning was actually a DRILL to see how various nations responded to the warning. The fact that actual earthquakes happened during that time frame was coincidental.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/17/tsunami.drill.ap/index.html

"Several real earthquakes hit Indonesia, Tonga and New Zealand during the exercise. The largest, centered about 710 miles northeast of Auckland, New Zealand, generated a minor local tsunami that did not affect any populated areas, New Zealand national civil defense controller Mike O'Leary said. It did not affect the drill."

[Juniper]

oops, looks like I am a bit behind :-) They were referring to a more recent tsunami warning and quake:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/nzealand.quake.ap/index.html

[Avalon]

Hey wouldnt worry - there was one on Tuesday (16th) about 800km north of Auckland which was 7.6. And we felt it all the way down here.

[Juniper]

Looks like that's the one that happened during the tsunami drill!