Emergency Alert-East coast of Asia

[tigerstail]

An 8.8 Earthquake in Chile. I pray for all the people. I can only think about devastation sunamion Indian Ocean basin. Warnings for entire Pacific Basin. East Coast of Thailand???? Tsunami Warnings??? Get word out!!

[laner]

Tsunami warning extended to Hawaii, across Pacific, as far as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia plus many Asian countries.

 

A WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR:

 

CHILE / PERU / ECUADOR / COLOMBIA / ANTARCTICA / PANAMA /

COSTA RICA / NICARAGUA / PITCAIRN / HONDURAS / EL SALVADOR /

GUATEMALA / FR. POLYNESIA / MEXICO / COOK ISLANDS / KIRIBATI /

KERMADEC IS / NIUE / NEW ZEALAND / TONGA / AMERICAN SAMOA /

SAMOA / JARVIS IS. / WALLIS-FUTUNA / TOKELAU / FIJI /

AUSTRALIA / HAWAII / PALMYRA IS. / TUVALU / VANUATU /

HOWLAND-BAKER / NEW CALEDONIA / JOHNSTON IS. / SOLOMON IS. /

NAURU / MARSHALL IS. / MIDWAY IS. / KOSRAE / PAPUA NEW GUINEA /

POHNPEI / WAKE IS. / CHUUK / RUSSIA / MARCUS IS. / INDONESIA /

N. MARIANAS / GUAM / YAP / BELAU / JAPAN / Philippines /

CHINESE TAIPEI

[TGluvver]

any effect should hit the Australian east coast at 08:45 Sunday morning, still many hours away so there would be many hours of warning for SE Asia

[tigerstail]

500mph..like a jetliner...

[Nak Muay]

 

found this to show Tsunami's path and approx times on the guardian website.

 

Quake happened 06:34 GMT

 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/30/cyclones.earthquakes.tsunamis/index.html

has apparently hit Easter island already tho no reports of the wave size. New Zeland has issued a warning to expect 6-12feet high waves.