Tsunami Warning

[limbimtimwim]

Strange question I know but...How's Tonga? Are those guys ok?

"Whilst electricity is out in Tonga, there are no reports of major damage at this time."

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

When I was walking home last night, I encounted a young woman carrying a seismograph. Odd in the first instance, but now very strange after this.

[denill]

At 7.9 on the Richter scale - a lot of kiwis are just bloody LUCKY, with no thanks whatsoever to the systems (that should be) in place to allow for warnings?????

I would prefer to go to high ground in the middle of the night for no reason than catch a Tsunami coming thru the front door. And it can happen, eh!!!!!!!!

[SwanTiger]

At 7.9 on the Richter scale - a lot of kiwis are just bloody LUCKY, with no thanks whatsoever to the systems (that should be) in place to allow for warnings?????

I would prefer to go to high ground in the middle of the night for no reason than catch a Tsunami coming thru the front door. And it can happen, eh!!!!!!!!

Indeed.

We live atop a hill over looking part of the ocean and two costal (flat) townships, Red Beach and Orewa. It would of been lovely to see all those moaning old farts washed away. On occasion the fog is so severe in the mornings that it looks as so a tidal wave has come in and wiped everything away.

Anyway, my point is.

When my fellow Maori brethren were still running around in flaxbush underwear killing white folk, a tidall wave raped one of their larger settlements out at Wenderholm.

So it is certainly possible.

[Lord Derosso]

I use to fish for years at Hendersons Bay 30 miles north of Kaitaia. Read some months ago they have evidence that it has the NZ record for height of a wave - over 100 feet. You wouldnt have a chance there because its flat sanddunes and then 100 metres flat tussock. They have build all over the dunes now...

Big Wellington/Wairarapa 1860's ? earthquake caused flooding in Lambton Quay, where I work, A huge wave hit the harbour entrance and further north it travelled up a river and wasted a vilage and many Maori and europeans killed.

Alert in the mid 1970's for Ninety Mile beach resulted in some locals getting their kits and waiting for the water to go out so they could go and get to the biggest shellfish beds... this was reported in the local Kaitaia paper. The wave did not arrive...

There was a 10 foot wave travelled up Whangarei harbour in the 1970's. I have a friend whom worked in the old Daletys warehouse located down by the old railway station and by the creek/river. At high tide he was working in the warehouse when the creek 'overflowed' and water came into his warehouse up to 5' deep. Freaked him right out !

What we do need to worry about are event created waves IE meteors as these are estimated to creat oceanwide waves as high as 2000 feet at landfall. There is evidence this sort of event, volcano eg, has caused such waves in our history as recent as 4000 years ago. Watch Deep Impact and then just go back to riding your bikes and worry about killer cars instead.

[Finn]

When my fellow Maori brethren were still running around in flaxbush underwear killing white folk

What do you mean "were", aren't they still doing this now?

[Lou Girardin]

Police and CD were on alert, they wouldnt have hit the sirens until there was more evidence of an actual tsunami approaching

So we'd think it was a big Police chase?

[Big Dave]

Watch Deep Impact and then just go back to riding your bikes and worry about killer cars instead.

So the moral is: Life is a numbers game, and remember to work on a hill?

[Gforce]

Tsunami Again??????

[MidnightMike]

Here's the quake that caused it. http://www.geonet.org.nz/urz-drum.html
The quake will roll off the drum around 03:00 am tomorrow.

WTF? Im in the BOP and didnt feel shit.

[Brett]

However, I think Labour will destroy NZ long before a natural disaster.

Amen. Couldnt agree more. ALthough she would stop a tsunami...damn thing would pucker up and run back out to see if it saw her ...

[Mattie]

well we dont have to worry then do we, nuthins gonna hit nz wit helen clark here

[paturoa]

Talking to a mate at work today (cager), he lives up by Hellinsville, anyway gets a call early and has to go to work cos of the warning. He is driving into work listening to the radio and just as he is going over the causeway south of Te Atatu the radio says the time of arrival in NZ. Glances at his clock and duh!!!

[u4ea]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,my feet are still dry.........................

[Dont_die_wondering]

their warning was so late it was rediculous lmao aparently people were standing on the beach looking at the ocean.....and gathering around having a look lol........doesnt matter if the warning was on time and their was actually a tsunami.. as most did opposite to what was advised... *shrugs* have they succesfully warned anyone of a tsunami yet?

[Lord Derosso]

Thought I might at well post a picture of what Wellington Harbour would look like if a meteor struck the earths crust.. of course the ground 'wave' would almost surely be travelling the other way and the height is too high but the photos cool anyway... the other one I entitled .. Entrance to Middle Earth.
Not nuch to do with biking but I suppose we should have plans. If the birdflu hits, my bike is part of one of our plans to be able to escape the city via certain backroads to get to family further north so perhaps local riders could think about this seriously. Remember Wellington is a bottlehead if the Hutt motorway is destroyed and covered by slips. One place I worked the boss even had his launch as an option to get over to the Hutt Valley.