TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 003 PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS ISSUED AT 0644Z 13 JAN 2007 THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA. ... A TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH ARE IN EFFECT ... A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR RUSSIA / JAPAN / MARCUS IS. / WAKE IS. / MIDWAY IS. / N. MARIANAS / GUAM / MARSHALL IS. / TAIWAN / YAP / POHNPEI / CHUUK A TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PHILIPPINES / KOSRAE / BELAU / JOHNSTON IS. / HAWAII / INDONESIA / KIRIBATI / NAURU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / HOWLAND-BAKER / PALMYRA IS. / SOLOMON IS. / TUVALU / VIETNAM / JARVIS IS. FOR ALL OTHER PACIFIC AREAS, THIS MESSAGE IS AN ADVISORY ONLY. AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS ORIGIN TIME - 0423Z 13 JAN 2007 COORDINATES - 46.7 NORTH 154.4 EAST LOCATION - EAST OF KURIL ISLANDS MAGNITUDE - 8.2 MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL PER ------------------- ----- ------ ----- ------ ----- HANASAKI HOKKAIDO 43.3N 145.6E 0605Z 0.10M 28MIN TIME - TIME OF THE MEASUREMENT AMPL - AMPLITUDE IN METERS FROM MIDDLE TO CREST OR MIDDLE TO TROUGH OR HALF OF THE CREST TO TROUGH PER - PERIOD OF TIME FROM ONE WAVE CREST TO THE NEXT EVALUATION SEA LEVEL READINGS INDICATE A TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED. IT MAY HAVE BEEN DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS NEAR THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER AND COULD ALSO BE A THREAT TO MORE DISTANT COASTS. AUTHORITIES SHOULD TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THIS POSSIBILITY. THIS CENTER WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR SEA LEVEL DATA TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT AND SEVERITY OF THE THREAT. FOR ALL AREAS - WHEN NO MAJOR WAVES ARE OBSERVED FOR TWO HOURS AFTER THE ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL OR DAMAGING WAVES HAVE NOT OCCURRED FOR AT LEAST TWO HOURS THEN LOCAL AUTHORITIES CAN ASSUME THE THREAT IS PASSED. DANGER TO BOATS AND COASTAL STRUCTURES CAN CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL HOURS DUE TO RAPID CURRENTS. AS LOCAL CONDITIONS CAN CAUSE A WIDE VARIATION IN TSUNAMI WAVE ACTION THE ALL CLEAR DETERMINATION MUST BE MADE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES. ESTIMATED INITIAL TSUNAMI WAVE ARRIVAL TIMES. ACTUAL ARRIVAL TIMES MAY DIFFER AND THE INITIAL WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST. THE TIME BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE TSUNAMI WAVES CAN BE FIVE MINUTES TO ONE HOUR. LOCATION COORDINATES ARRIVAL TIME -------------------------------- ------------ ------------ RUSSIA URUP IS 46.1N 150.5E 0456Z 13 JAN PETROPAVLOVSK K 53.2N 159.6E 0540Z 13 JAN MEDNNY IS 54.7N 167.4E 0551Z 13 JAN UST KAMCHATSK 56.1N 162.6E 0551Z 13 JAN SEVERO KURILSK 50.8N 156.1E 0552Z 13 JAN JAPAN KUSHIRO 42.9N 144.3E 0539Z 13 JAN HACHINOHE 40.5N 141.5E 0613Z 13 JAN KATSUURA 35.1N 140.3E 0627Z 13 JAN SHIMIZU 32.8N 133.0E 0746Z 13 JAN OKINAWA 26.2N 127.8E 0847Z 13 JAN MARCUS IS. MARCUS IS. 24.3N 154.0E 0717Z 13 JAN WAKE IS. WAKE IS. 19.3N 166.6E 0813Z 13 JAN MIDWAY IS. MIDWAY IS. 28.2N 177.4W 0817Z 13 JAN N. MARIANAS SAIPAN 15.3N 145.8E 0839Z 13 JAN GUAM GUAM 13.4N 144.7E 0902Z 13 JAN MARSHALL IS. ENIWETOK 11.4N 162.3E 0912Z 13 JAN KWAJALEIN 8.7N 167.7E 0944Z 13 JAN MAJURO 7.1N 171.4E 1001Z 13 JAN TAIWAN HUALIEN 24.0N 121.6E 0924Z 13 JAN YAP YAP IS. 9.5N 138.1E 0935Z 13 JAN POHNPEI POHNPEI IS. 7.0N 158.2E 0937Z 13 JAN CHUUK CHUUK IS. 7.4N 151.8E 0939Z 13 JAN PHILIPPINES PALANAN 17.1N 122.6E 0945Z 13 JAN LAOAG 18.2N 120.6E 1003Z 13 JAN SAN FERNANDO 16.6N 120.3E 1026Z 13 JAN LEGASPI 13.2N 123.8E 1026Z 13 JAN DAVAO 6.8N 125.7E 1040Z 13 JAN ZAMBOANGA 6.9N 122.1E 1136Z 13 JAN MANILA 14.6N 121.0E 1146Z 13 JAN ILOILO 10.7N 122.5E 1159Z 13 JAN PUERTO PRINCESA 9.8N 118.8E 1215Z 13 JAN KOSRAE KOSRAE IS. 5.5N 163.0E 0959Z 13 JAN BELAU MALAKAL 7.3N 134.5E 1003Z 13 JAN JOHNSTON IS. JOHNSTON IS. 16.7N 169.5W 1008Z 13 JAN HAWAII NAWILIWILI 22.0N 159.4W 1023Z 13 JAN HONOLULU 21.3N 157.9W 1041Z 13 JAN HILO 19.7N 155.1W 1059Z 13 JAN INDONESIA GEME 4.6N 126.8E 1038Z 13 JAN BEREBERE 2.5N 128.7E 1048Z 13 JAN WARSA 0.6S 135.8E 1100Z 13 JAN MANOKWARI 0.8S 134.2E 1106Z 13 JAN PATANI 0.4N 128.8E 1115Z 13 JAN JAYAPURA 2.4S 140.8E 1120Z 13 JAN SORONG 0.8S 131.1E 1121Z 13 JAN MANADO 1.6N 124.9E 1127Z 13 JAN TARAKAN 3.3N 117.6E 1233Z 13 JAN SINGKAWANG 1.0N 109.0E 1901Z 13 JAN PANGKALPINANG 2.1S 106.1E 2327Z 13 JAN KIRIBATI TARAWA IS. 1.5N 173.0E 1055Z 13 JAN KANTON IS. 2.8S 171.7W 1206Z 13 JAN CHRISTMAS IS. 2.0N 157.5W 1252Z 13 JAN MALDEN IS. 3.9S 154.9W 1333Z 13 JAN FLINT IS. 11.4S 151.8W 1431Z 13 JAN NAURU NAURU 0.5S 166.9E 1057Z 13 JAN PAPUA NEW GUINE KAVIENG 2.5S 150.7E 1101Z 13 JAN MANUS IS. 2.0S 147.5E 1103Z 13 JAN VANIMO 2.6S 141.3E 1118Z 13 JAN WEWAK 3.5S 143.6E 1129Z 13 JAN KIETA 6.1S 155.6E 1140Z 13 JAN AMUN 6.0S 154.7E 1144Z 13 JAN RABAUL 4.2S 152.3E 1147Z 13 JAN MADANG 5.2S 145.8E 1153Z 13 JAN LAE 6.8S 147.0E 1225Z 13 JAN PORT MORESBY 9.3S 146.9E 1347Z 13 JAN HOWLAND-BAKER HOWLAND IS. 0.6N 176.6W 1122Z 13 JAN PALMYRA IS. PALMYRA IS. 6.3N 162.4W 1149Z 13 JAN SOLOMON IS. FALAMAE 7.4S 155.6E 1152Z 13 JAN PANGGOE 6.9S 157.2E 1156Z 13 JAN MUNDA 8.4S 157.2E 1209Z 13 JAN GHATERE 7.8S 159.2E 1218Z 13 JAN KIRAKIRA 10.4S 161.9E 1232Z 13 JAN HONIARA 9.3S 160.0E 1259Z 13 JAN AUKI 8.8S 160.6E 1259Z 13 JAN TUVALU FUNAFUTI IS. 7.9S 178.5E 1214Z 13 JAN VIETNAM QUI NHON 13.7N 109.2E 1216Z 13 JAN VINH 18.6N 105.7E 1416Z 13 JAN BAC LIEU 9.3N 105.8E 1646Z 13 JAN JARVIS IS. JARVIS IS. 0.4S 160.1W 1241Z 13 JAN BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT. THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. THE JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY MAY ALSO ISSUE TSUNAMI MESSAGES FOR THIS EVENT TO COUNTRIES IN THE NORTHWEST PACIFIC AND SOUTH CHINA SEA REGION. IN CASE OF CONFLICTING INFORMATION... THE MORE CONSERVATIVE INFORMATION SHOULD BE USED FOR SAFETY. THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.