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#57883 27-Feb-2010 20:49

Hopefully this won't mean anything for NZ, but around 7.30pm tonight NZ Time an 8.5 Quake has been recorded off Chile, the Geonet website here is showing the quake on a lot of the measuring equipment in NZ.
No Tsunami warning for New Zealand yet but I know we've been hit by a wave from that area before

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#302791 27-Feb-2010 21:01

They saying now that its 8.8
Poor buggers -.-

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#302800 27-Feb-2010 21:27

I'm keeping an eye on the Pacific Tsunami Warning centre's website, warnings slowly being extended out
Nothing on NZ as yet but I would not be surprised if they do place our east-coast on a watch

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#302809 27-Feb-2010 22:01

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/3384288/Chile-shaken-by-8-8-magnitude-earthquake

Apparently no threat to NZ.

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#302835 27-Feb-2010 23:08

HiK1000716: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/3384288/Chile-shaken-by-8-8-magnitude-earthquake

Apparently no threat to NZ.

Yet..
Auzzy NSW has a watch inplace

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#302850 28-Feb-2010 00:00

There's a warning on now for the whole pacific including NZ:
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/pacific/2010/pacific.2010.02.27.104329.txt

Here's the eta map:
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2010/02/27/725245/04/ttvu725245-04.jpg

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#302853 28-Feb-2010 00:24

NZ Civil Defense just got a warning out too:

00:12HRSNZDT 28 February 2010
The magnitude of the Chile quake has been confirmed as 8.8. A local tsunami has been confirmed with the highest recorded wave measuring 2.2m.
The Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management (MCDEM) and GNS science advisors have been closely monitoring the situation following the above quake to assess any potential tsunami threat to NZ. Based on current information MCDEM has issued a National Warning:Tsunami Threat to NZ. There is a possible marine threat along the East coast of the North Island and South Island and Chatham Island at level 1 (0.2 to 1 metre) .The earliest possible arrival times for NZ are 07:05 on Sunday 28 Feb at Chatham Island
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#302874 28-Feb-2010 07:55

HiK1000716: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/3384288/Chile-shaken-by-8-8-magnitude-earthquake

Apparently no threat to NZ.

Yes but it won't stop the headless chickens in the NZ news media making a 10 meter wave out of it..

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#302878 28-Feb-2010 08:24

Whole Pacific is on Severe Warning
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/

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#302887 28-Feb-2010 08:48

TV 1 is doing live News Reports every 30 mins
they did a live cross to Wellington and hardly anyone knew of the warning...no sirens going or anything

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#302902 28-Feb-2010 09:40

There was some talk about evacuating an area near Christchurch which was very near sea level. There'll be an update every 30 minutes on TV1.

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#302910 28-Feb-2010 10:01

The Wellington City Council did issue a Tsunami Warning for the region.

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#302927 28-Feb-2010 10:59

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904&nav=menu55_1_1

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