Hard News: The new wave
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Interesting. Tauranga is not mentioned and it is a big low lying city........Could really be a Bay of Plenty
Oddly enough this story appeared in the BoP times a week or so ago.
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just ducking upstairs to watch Peter Weir's Last Wave, again...
Nature/Gaia has so many impressive ways of flushing out infestations and cling-ons to the bowl of life...
...maybe this is just a shot across the bows
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The tsunami was generated on the eastern side of the Tonga-Kernadec trench and has that deep water wave-guide to speed it towards East Cape and down the eastern coast of the country beyond there. But it has to cross volcanically lumpy shallower seafloor to get to western Bay of Plenty and Auckland - that's why earlier arrival time in Wellington. Nothing at East Cape yet 5 mins after predicted arrival time.
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Earworm for the Tsunami Alert:
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Chris - that makes sense - I've been relying on google maps for my geography - and for some reason spaced the trench out as a rise
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Well I was going to go whitebaiting this morning
But standing in the sea in waders on a gravel bank, water in front water behind somehow has lost its appeal -
Estimates are that wave height will be about a metre. Which is less than the volume of ordinary tidal change. Anywhere that's got a low tide is definitely safe. This includes Auckland city, which will be at dead low tide at 11:10.
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JLM,
Poor old Dunedin. Always the last to know.
To the great sorrow of my husband, who is 500 metres from a beach as I type, and doubtless heading for some vantage point from which to be disappointed at the non-event.
He's the sort who stands in an earthquake soaking in the data while everyone else is running round flapping.
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I see the 'Disaster Magnet' struck again on Breakfast TV this morning.
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Due here in about 15 minutes. No civil defence siren so it seems there's not much to worry about. 1 metre is a lot less than some of the easterly swells we get. Haumoana always gets it when there's high seas. Me I'm at school getting ready for nest term.
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Estimates are that wave height will be about a metre. Which is less than the volume of ordinary tidal change. Anywhere that's got a low tide is definitely safe. This includes Auckland city, which will be at dead low tide at 11:10.
Unless you happen to be wandering along the mud flats at the time?
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The wave seems to be just showing on the Geonet gauges.
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He's the sort who stands in an earthquake soaking in the data while everyone else is running round flapping.
;-)
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The NZ stuff looks like noise and is late. The absence of any tsunami a couple of hours ago at Raoul Island on track between source and NZ should have been enough to indicate no risk here, I would have thought. Waves much less than a metre arriving at raoul in last few minutes will be waves reflected back off Samoa rather than directly from source, a good indicator.
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I think it's Raoul Island that's the one showing up
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Unless you happen to be wandering along the mud flats at the time?
A few million periwinkles will get the ride of their lives...
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Got text from friend in Raglan: "Just popping out for a few minutes, don't worry." (A fellow non-Txt spkr.) There are times when I come to suspect the human race isn't completely fraked after all... :)
And, for once, kudos to the media -- or at least RNZ -- whose coverage has been informative, restrained and untainted by disaster pron. Well played, ladies and gentlemen. I'm afraid to look at The Herald, though.
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The wave seems to be just showing on the Geonet gauges.
Given that, does that mean the arrvial times are out by an hour?
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Ooosh those geonet gauges are going wild now. Raoul Island showing half a tide worth of wave. That would be more than enough for a nasty surprise if you're at the beach.
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Blimey, Auckland. Get the boogie boards out! The backwash at Pt Chev will be...uh.. awesome-ish.
I love that original tweet. Not waving, but clowning.
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Auckland and points south, I mean. (I was mainly talking to my bros, whose boogie board skillz are legendary).
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OK, I'm utterly confused. The Harold is reporting a 90cm wave hit East Cape sometime this morning, but those Geonet graphs show it hitting Raoul Island 5 minutes ago (so 30-60mins from NZ)
At least one is wrong. Which is it?
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Waiting for the live cross to Russell on the Cheviera with his trousers rolled up to his knees...
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And, for once, kudos to the media -- or at least RNZ -- whose coverage has been informative, restrained and untainted by disaster pron. [snip!]. I'm afraid to look at The Herald, though.
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Unless you happen to be wandering along the mud flats at the time?
A few million periwinkles will get the ride of their lives...
too late. I can see it already - breathless reporting by Granny interviewing some periwinkles....
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OK, I'm utterly confused. The Harold is reporting a 90cm wave hit East Cape sometime this morning, but those Geonet graphs show it hitting Raoul Island 5 minutes ago (so 30-60mins from NZ)
At least one is wrong. Which is it?
In a dispute between the vast news-gathering machine of the Herald and a tiny piece of pressure sensing equipment: back the machine, every time.
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