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WA faces tidal surge after quake
March 29, 2005
From: Agence France-Presse
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A TEN-centimetre tsunami rolled into the remote Cocos Island early today following a powerful earthquake off Indonesia, Australian authorities said.
"The Bureau of Meteorology has reported a 10cm tsunami was measured by the tide gauge at Cocos Island," Geoscience Australia said.
The meteorology service said it expected the small tidal surge to reach Australia's west coast about 4am (WST) and take two to three hours to wash up and down the coast.
Cocos was hit by a 50cm tsunami following the December 26 earthquake off Sumatra, but no damage was caused.
Cocos Island lies south of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean.
I expect there was one, along the coast of Sumatra well south of Banda Aceh and North of Padang. No foreign media there.
>>expert Kerry Sieh told journalists in Los Angeles.<<
His name is Kerry, what do you expect?
Tsunamis come a range of sizes, Lainie, from barely detectable to 2x or more what the world saaw just after Christmas in this region. I believe I saw somewhere in this thread that a 3m tsunami (10 ft) was triggered by this latest quake.
The magnitude of a tsunami is determined by 3 factors: a) magnitude of quake, b) type of seafloor movement, and c)bottom topography where the tsunami makes landfall. There's still some small possibility that a tsunami generated by this quake as yet to hit a distant coast in, say, E Africa/Madagascar.
Also, it's still dark in the immediate region (5:30am by my calculation) and with primitive - if any - communications, I don't think we'll know about the nearby regions of W Sumatra and its outlying islands for a few more hours yet.
it hit.
only 10 centimeters high though.
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