Am trying to get a handle on the geography, but it looks like the warning has been cancelled. My son is a student and lives on the Gold Coast, but happens to be travelling this week, north in Cairns.
Cairns is getting up the east coast of Australia. Beautiful part of the world, quite warm most of the year.
This earthquake happened quite a far way south and to the east of that, right across the Tasman Sea. I’m not saying that a tsunami couldn’t get there, but if it did it would have to be quite a big one.
I think your son will probably be OK — but I’ll remember him in my prayers tonite anyway.
As DieHard said, Cairns is too far north to be at any real risk, but is also well protected by the Great Barrier Reef.
The alert hasn’t yet been cancelled for south eastern Australia, but Cairns isn’t even in the alert area.