I don't know if its national programming, or regionalised to us down here.
But about every 2nd ad break tonight has _2_ getthrough based duck and cover, or get the new hell out of dodge messages being pushed hard. (telling you to ignore the lack of warnings...)
I don't know if its national programming, or regionalised to us down here.
But about every 2nd ad break tonight has _2_ getthrough based duck and cover, or get the new hell out of dodge messages being pushed hard. (telling you to ignore the lack of warnings...)
I heard them as well....and they are telling us not to drive!!!!
I don't know if its national programming, or regionalised to us down here.
But about every 2nd ad break tonight has _2_ getthrough based duck and cover, or get the new hell out of dodge messages being pushed hard. (telling you to ignore the lack of warnings...)
I heard them as well....and they are telling us not to drive!!!!
I don't know if its national programming, or regionalised to us down here.
But about every 2nd ad break tonight has _2_ getthrough based duck and cover, or get the new hell out of dodge messages being pushed hard. (telling you to ignore the lack of warnings...)
Thats right, as the so called tsunami warnings arent warnings, unless they get delivered immediately after the EQ and with details of yes, no or maybe. The warning is the shake
I didn't even feel the shake for the warning before last. We didn't know anything about it until we read it in the paper the next morning. :P I missed the text because my phone was in the kitchen. I take it to bed with me now. For the far off ones I hope they ring the siren. If we get a really big one we'll feel it!
Yep, it's totally "cry wolf" in NZ. Issued for every earthquake and very slow to rescind compared to the US Pacific Tsunami centre. If we ever get a real one, there will be loads of casualties because people are used to ignoring the warnings
We had around 50 quakes in the last 24 hours, I recall just one alert.
But anything over a 6 in the pacific region pretty much "automatically" gets a tsunami warning from civil defence... WHY?
Perhaps because earthquakes in the Pacific could generate a fairly devastaing Tsunami?? BTW Civil Defence just pass along the alerts issued by NIWA right?
Actually we don't have a good tsunami detection system in NZ so the international alerts are the only ones we get for international quakes. There is no real-time warning system for any tsunami triggered by a southern hemisphere ocean-based earthquake apart from detecting the quake itself, and a near-shore earthquake like Kaikoura had the potential to deliver a tsunami before the guy at NIWA could even make the phone call. I remember a Tsunami warning issued a few years ago for a Southern Ocean quake was cancelled for the reason that it should have hit Bluff already if it had been a big one, so actually Bluff only ever got the initial alert about a potential tsunami. The science and the funding both have some way to go before these things can be predicted that accurately.
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