Breaking - Earthquake Magnitude 7.4 - VANUATU

USGS ^ | March 24, 2007

[bd476]

This is another earthquake, different and larger than the quake off of Honshu, Japan.

More information on the way...

[b4its2late]

Rockin' and rollin' today.....

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Wasn't Rodan born from an earthquake?

[Malsua]

I've got a dear friend that lives in Vanuatu. Is there more information than just that a 7.4 hit? Casualties, damages? etc?

[bd476]

Magnitude 7.4 - VANUATU

2007 March 25 00:40:02 UTC

Earthquake Details

Magnitude	7.4
Date-Time	Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 00:40:02 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 11:40:02 AM = local time at epicenter
Location	20.724°S, 169.433°E
Depth	30 km (18.6 miles) set by location program
Region	VANUATU
Distances	134 km (83 miles) S (173°) from Isangel, Vanuatu 183 km (114 miles) ENE (62°) from Tadine, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia 351 km (218 miles) SSE (160°) from PORT-VILA, Vanuatu 1828 km (1136 miles) ENE (69°) from Brisbane, Australia
Location Uncertainty	Error estimate not available
Parameters	Nst=050, Nph=050, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.69 sec, Gp= 94°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=1
Source	West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/NOAA/NWS
Event ID	at00141360

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[bnelson44]

134 km (83 miles) S (173°) from Isangel, Vanuatu
183 km (114 miles) ENE (62°) from Tadine, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
351 km (218 miles) SSE (160°) from PORT-VILA, Vanuatu
1828 km (1136 miles) ENE (69°) from Brisbane, Australia

[b4its2late]

West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/NOAA/NWS

[firewalk]

prayers

[JerseyJohn61]

7.4 is no little quake. Sending out a prayer....JJ61

[alisasny]

What will ALGORE do or say?

[bd476]

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[eyespysomething]

This link is a Yahoo group with a link to a radio station there:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/virtualvanuatu/

[b4its2late]

Australia vicinity.....

[bd476]

Tsunami Information Statement #1

To: Tsunami warning system participants in the U.S. West Coast States, Alaska, and British Columbia

From: NOAA/NWS/West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (Experimental Web Product)

Subject: Tsunami Information Statement #1 issued 03/24/2007 at 6:00PM PDT

A strong earthquake has occurred, but a tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, or Alaska coast. NO tsunami warning or watch is in effect for these areas.

Based on the earthquake magnitude and historic tsunami records, a damaging tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska coasts. At coastal locations which have experienced strong ground shaking, local tsunamis are possible due to underwater landslides.

At 5:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time on March 24, an earthquake with preliminary magnitude 7.3 occurred near the Vanuatu Islands.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii will issue messages for Hawaii and other areas of the Pacific outside California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska.

This will be the only statement issued for this event by the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center unless conditions warrant. See the WCATWC web site for basic tsunami information, safety rules, and a tsunami travel time map and table. (NOTE: Travel time maps and tables indicate predicted times only, not that a wave was generated.)

[b4its2late]

To: Tsunami warning system participants in the U.S. West Coast States, Alaska, and British Columbia
From: NOAA/NWS/West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (Experimental Web Product)
Subject: Tsunami Information Statement #1 issued 03/24/2007 at 6:00PM PDT

A strong earthquake has occurred, but a tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, or Alaska coast. NO tsunami warning or watch is in effect for these areas.

Based on the earthquake magnitude and historic tsunami records, a damaging tsunami IS NOT expected along the California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska coasts. At coastal locations which have experienced strong ground shaking, local tsunamis are possible due to underwater landslides.

At 5:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time on March 24, an earthquake with preliminary magnitude 7.3 occurred near the Vanuatu Islands.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii will issue messages for Hawaii and other areas of the Pacific outside California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska.

This will be the only statement issued for this event by the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center unless conditions warrant. See the WCATWC web site for basic tsunami information, safety rules, and a tsunami travel time map and table. (NOTE: Travel time maps and tables indicate predicted times only, not that a wave was generated.)

[preacher]

If only we had signed the Kyoto treaty, none of this would have happened.

It's Bush's fault

[kitkat]

1828 km (1136 miles) ENE (69°) from Brisbane, Australia

It looks as though it's south of New Zealand. Is that right?

Prayers up.

[bd476]

[Eye of Unk]

Just a warmup to the next one in Iran...

[denydenydeny]

A few years ago, Vanuatu was one of the places that the Global Warming cultists insisted would be under the ocean soon, and Michael Crichton famously mocked this theory in State of Fear, showing that the predicted sinking never happened.