Today provided a good example of the realities of life in the Pacific: It’s a vast geologically active area, and people ignore that at their peril. Today proved to be minor for New Zealand, but it could have been much worse. After I recorded this, it was determined that dozens—perhaps hundreds—had been killed in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, and entire villages had been wiped out. They know first hand what tsunamis can do.
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Links for this episode
New Zealand Red Cross Samoa Earthquake Appeal.
NZ Herald coverage of the earthquake & Tsunami.
Visualising the earthquake magnitude scale.
It seemed so innocent.
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Glad to hear you didn’t have any serious effects from the earthquake/tsunami. Sad for those who did have deaths.
When I heard about this yesterday, you were the first person I thought of and then I thought of Scotty.
You say SAM-oh-ah, I say Sah-MOE-ah.
Americans are the same way about hurricane warnings. Some folks got killed the last time a Category 1 storm hit the mainland (this was in New England) as they washed out to sea while watching the storm come in. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/23/tropical-weather-082309/
I’m sure they were thinking, “It’s ONLY a category 1.”