Australia tsunami warning :
"'I think it is a misconception that Australia is safe from natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis,' Prof Mora said. 'We are actually very prone.'
He said research partners in the US, who had an 80 per cent success rate of forecasting the locations of large earthquakes, were behind the forecasts detrimental to Australia."
So if a tsunami could hit our east coast are we prepared? Do we know what to do? Do we have a masterplan? The Geohazards update site is of help.
According to the article it is likely to come from NZ but NZ would not afford us protection.
According to Seismic monitor there was quite a big quake in NZ a couple of days ago.
29-MAY-2005 21:44:28 -30.17 -178.10 6.2 20.8 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
No one wants to think about these things and no one wants to it it happen to people, but we do have to have an action plan . You only have to look at a map of our region and you can clearly see that the countries used to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. The planet changes and we must change with it, but ignoring that is not helping.
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