TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — When the American Samoa community woke up to the ‘shake shake shake’ from an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 occurring about 176 miles southwest of Savaii island in Samoa around 5:02a.m. yesterday, Wednesday, May 10, many residents said they “were all...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ASG Department of Homeland Security (ASDHS) issued a notice two days ago that it will be conducting a test of the siren system at 12noon today, May 6 — for certain villages and areas and for the public not to be alarmed.
Those villages and areas are: Tula, Aunu’u,...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Tsunami detection times in the south-west Pacific are soon to drop from hours to minutes.
That's because of a new underwater early warning system being installed in the region.
A research seismologist from New Zealand's science agency GNS, Bill Fry, said the current system...
Apia, SAMOA — New Zealand's climate and ocean science agency (NIWA) has started deploying a new tsunami warning system around the Pacific.
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters revealed while in Apia, Samoa, on Friday that NIWA's ship Tangaroa is on a mission to position the first four of 15 hi-tech...