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#2668129 5-Mar-2021 10:35

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MikeB4: @Fred99 I agree and believe that emergency management should err on the side of safety and ignore the 4,000,000 self appointed experts in everything. It’s a dammed if they do and dammed if they do so just do.

I predict a list of failures with this event will hit the news/FB tomorrow

I predict (based on seeing what happened in the past) that there will be many dire predictions and comments about what's going to happen next by the usual culprits. The news media must chase down Brian Tamaki, if they know where he's hiding, and give him equal coverage to GNS scientists, because everybody's opinion matters.

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#2668145 5-Mar-2021 10:40

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MikeB4: @Fred99 I agree and believe that emergency management should err on the side of safety and ignore the 4,000,000 self appointed experts in everything. It’s a dammed if they do and dammed if they do so just do.

I predict a list of failures with this event will hit the news/FB tomorrow

Totally, and so it should! Bring attention to failures, allows them to see daylight, and get fixed.

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#2668149 5-Mar-2021 10:49

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I predict a list of failures with this event will hit the news/FB tomorrow

Totally, and so it should! Bring attention to failures, allows them to see daylight, and get fixed.

Of course - because viral "news" on social media - Facebook in particular - has been a great thing for humanity /s

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#2668151 5-Mar-2021 10:53

Got to listen to the 4,000,000 self appointed experts on social media, opinion pieces in Stuff and Forums.

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#2668154 5-Mar-2021 10:56

First waves just starting to show on the tsunami gauge network:

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#2668155 5-Mar-2021 11:05

I heard Waitangi and Paihia have shore water receding

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#2668157 5-Mar-2021 11:12

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#2668158 5-Mar-2021 11:15

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Of course - because viral "news" on social media - Facebook in particular - has been a great thing for humanity /s

Oh rah rah. It's not hard to root out the idiocy and find the geniune complaints. Ignoring everything on the platform, when this is how many people choose to primarily communicate now, is silly.

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#2668161 5-Mar-2021 11:23

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Oh rah rah. It's not hard to root out the idiocy and find the geniune complaints. Ignoring everything on the platform, when this is how many people choose to primarily communicate now, is silly.

Those who have a clue will be discussing and debriefing in meetings not Facebook

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#2668164 5-Mar-2021 11:26

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Those who have a clue will be discussing and debriefing in meetings not Facebook

That is not what we are talking about. We are discussing people reporting failures in the existing systems and plans. If the people "who had a clue" knew about them, and fixed them, they wouldn't be being reported.

Like any platform, there are idiots, but dismissing it entirely as a source of learnings from the current plans and systems, is folly.

Like it or not, Social media is how many people communicate now. Do I like it? No.

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#2668165 5-Mar-2021 11:28

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That is not what we are talking about. We are discussing people reporting failures in the existing systems and plans. If the people "who had a clue" knew about them, and fixed them, they wouldn't be being reported

perceived failures

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#2668166 5-Mar-2021 11:29

MikeB4:

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That is not what we are talking about. We are discussing people reporting failures in the existing systems and plans. If the people "who had a clue" knew about them, and fixed them, they wouldn't be being reported

perceived failures

Well, the real experts can filter them. That's their job.

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#2668167 5-Mar-2021 11:30

The Hawaii Centre advisory covered a huge percentage of the Pacific including South America, Antartica, Australia and most of our region.

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#2668168 5-Mar-2021 11:34

One of the issues with these events folks seem to think it will be like Hollywood with massive surfing type waves coming to shore and The Rock flying in on an Iroquois to save the day and when that doesn't happen then the Emergency Management are muppets that don't know what they are doing. Its pathetic, I feel some are disappointed when there is not mayhem and death.

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#2668169 5-Mar-2021 11:44

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MikeB4:

Those who have a clue will be discussing and debriefing in meetings not Facebook

That is not what we are talking about. We are discussing people reporting failures in the existing systems and plans. If the people "who had a clue" knew about them, and fixed them, they wouldn't be being reported.

Last thing experts evaluating system failures need is any pressure to respond to idiots on social media, and some of the idiots in the news media.

There were issues with tsunami warning from the "Kaikoura" quake due to a few things, there's a thread about it on GZ. It took time to sort out. The quake was complex - without record of precedent. Pleas to fund 24/7 tsunami duty officers had fallen on deaf ears. The one person responsible for decisions was probably asleep at home and probably got woken at midnight and had the same thought going through his head as everybody else - "what the hell was that?". Despite your claim that social media is useful, I can't recall a single post on social media discussing those details. Most of what I read was sensational garbage.

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