East Coast Tsunami Alert

[Bigdog]

Hearing this morning most of East coast Australia is on Tsunami alert after an earthquake in Chile Sydney expecting rough seas, scanning Marine band nothing much happening although is a lot of talk on Surf comm on 471.2000

[freqwaves]

Heard SES on GRN visiting beaches to check waves and how many people are in the water.
John.

[soupbones]

I watched the Nrth Bondi coast watch live web cam from about 7am till 10am this morning, and there was no tsunami wave. It was another big fizzer of a tsunami warning...
Was funny to see around 9am the amount of people at Bondi waiting for a tsunami wave to come in and wash everything away. Another cam I was watching you could see the channel 7 crew there, getting bored out of their sculls.

[cartman]

On that Sunday I was with some of the Lord Howe Island SES personnel (some of whom doubled up as Lord Howe Island Board Reps - ie the governing island council) who were on the Lagoon Beach snorkel/dive tours strip, waiting for the event and keeping folk out of the water. I found out that most comms between various agencies on Lord Howe is either HF USB or VHF Marine ie no mobile telephones. It turned out that there was some tidal abnormalities/surge on the eastern side of the island (water reaching places where it shouldn't) but otherwise nothing much.

Grant

[aircadet]

Do you know what HF freq's they were using?? Good to know if this happens again...!!