TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 002 PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS ISSUED AT 2132Z 01 APR 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 SOLOMON IS. / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / VANUATU / NAURU / CHUUK / NEW CALEDONIA / POHNPEI / KOSRAE / AUSTRALIA / INDONESIA / TUVALU / KIRIBATI / MARSHALL IS. A TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GUAM / FIJI / N. MARIANAS / YAP / HOWLAND-BAKER / WALLIS-FUTUNA / BELAU / TOKELAU / KERMADEC IS / SAMOA / NEW ZEALAND / MARCUS IS. / WAKE IS. / AMERICAN SAMOA / TONGA / NIUE / COOK ISLANDS / PHILIPPINES / JARVIS IS. / PALMYRA IS. / JOHNSTON IS. / JAPAN FOR ALL OTHER PACIFIC AREAS, THIS MESSAGE IS AN ADVISORY ONLY. AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS ORIGIN TIME - 2040Z 01 APR 2007 COORDINATES - 8.6 SOUTH 157.2 EAST LOCATION - SOLOMON ISLANDS MAGNITUDE - 8.1 EVALUATION IT IS NOT KNOWN THAT A TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED. THIS WARNING IS BASED ONLY ON THE EARTHQUAKE EVALUATION. AN EARTHQUAKE OF THIS SIZE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE A DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI THAT CAN STRIKE COASTLINES NEAR THE EPICENTER WITHIN MINUTES AND MORE DISTANT COASTLINES WITHIN HOURS. AUTHORITIES SHOULD TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THIS POSSIBILITY. THIS CENTER WILL MONITOR SEA LEVEL DATA FROM GAUGES NEAR THE EARTHQUAKE TO DETERMINE IF A TSUNAMI WAS GENERATED AND ESTIMATE THE SEVERITY OF THE THREAT. 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 -------------------------------- ------------ ------------ SOLOMON IS. MUNDA 8.4S 157.2E 2039Z 01 APR FALAMAE 7.4S 155.6E 2103Z 01 APR PANGGOE 6.9S 157.2E 2120Z 01 APR HONIARA 9.3S 160.0E 2121Z 01 APR GHATERE 7.8S 159.2E 2122Z 01 APR AUKI 8.8S 160.6E 2134Z 01 APR KIRAKIRA 10.4S 161.9E 2140Z 01 APR PAPUA NEW GUINE AMUN 6.0S 154.7E 2124Z 01 APR KIETA 6.1S 155.6E 2133Z 01 APR RABAUL 4.2S 152.3E 2145Z 01 APR LAE 6.8S 147.0E 2218Z 01 APR KAVIENG 2.5S 150.7E 2223Z 01 APR MADANG 5.2S 146.0E 2241Z 01 APR PORT MORESBY 9.5S 147.0E 2254Z 01 APR MANUS IS. 2.0S 147.5E 2259Z 01 APR WEWAK 3.5S 143.6E 2325Z 01 APR VANIMO 2.6S 141.3E 2350Z 01 APR VANUATU ESPERITU SANTO 15.1S 167.3E 2236Z 01 APR ANATOM IS. 20.2S 169.9E 2322Z 01 APR NAURU NAURU 0.5S 166.9E 2311Z 01 APR CHUUK CHUUK IS. 7.4N 151.8E 2329Z 01 APR NEW CALEDONIA NOUMEA 22.3S 166.5E 2338Z 01 APR POHNPEI POHNPEI IS. 7.0N 158.2E 2345Z 01 APR KOSRAE KOSRAE IS. 5.5N 163.0E 2345Z 01 APR AUSTRALIA CAIRNS 16.7S 145.8E 2349Z 01 APR BRISBANE 27.2S 153.3E 0033Z 02 APR SYDNEY 33.9S 151.4E 0114Z 02 APR GLADSTONE 23.8S 151.4E 0139Z 02 APR MACKAY 21.1S 149.3E 0144Z 02 APR HOBART 43.3S 147.6E 0245Z 02 APR INDONESIA JAYAPURA 2.4S 140.8E 2354Z 01 APR WARSA 0.6S 135.8E 0037Z 02 APR MANOKWARI 0.8S 134.2E 0056Z 02 APR SORONG 0.8S 131.1E 0125Z 02 APR BEREBERE 2.5N 128.7E 0144Z 02 APR PATANI 0.4N 128.8E 0158Z 02 APR GEME 4.8N 126.8E 0202Z 02 APR MANADO 1.5N 124.8E 0242Z 02 APR TARAKAN 3.3N 117.6E 0400Z 02 APR SINGKAWANG 1.0N 108.8E 1240Z 02 APR PANGKALPINANG 2.0S 106.2E 1547Z 02 APR TUVALU FUNAFUTI IS. 7.9S 178.5E 2359Z 01 APR KIRIBATI TARAWA IS. 1.5N 173.0E 0007Z 02 APR KANTON IS. 2.8S 171.7W 0121Z 02 APR CHRISTMAS IS. 2.0N 157.5W 0325Z 02 APR MALDEN IS. 3.9S 154.9W 0336Z 02 APR FLINT IS. 11.4S 151.8W 0408Z 02 APR MARSHALL IS. KWAJALEIN 8.7N 167.7E 0022Z 02 APR MAJURO 7.1N 171.4E 0028Z 02 APR ENIWETOK 11.4N 162.3E 0037Z 02 APR GUAM GUAM 13.4N 144.7E 0035Z 02 APR FIJI SUVA 18.1S 178.4E 0038Z 02 APR N. MARIANAS SAIPAN 15.3N 145.8E 0041Z 02 APR YAP YAP IS. 9.5N 138.1E 0048Z 02 APR HOWLAND-BAKER HOWLAND IS. 0.6N 176.6W 0057Z 02 APR WALLIS-FUTUNA WALLIS IS. 13.2S 176.2W 0100Z 02 APR BELAU MALAKAL 7.3N 134.5E 0103Z 02 APR TOKELAU NUKUNONU IS. 9.2S 171.8W 0119Z 02 APR KERMADEC IS RAOUL IS. 29.2S 177.9W 0131Z 02 APR SAMOA APIA 13.8S 171.8W 0135Z 02 APR NEW ZEALAND NORTH CAPE 34.4S 173.3E 0138Z 02 APR EAST CAPE 37.5S 178.5E 0214Z 02 APR AUCKLAND(W) 37.1S 174.2E 0238Z 02 APR GISBORNE 38.7S 178.0E 0247Z 02 APR MILFORD SOUND 44.5S 167.8E 0249Z 02 APR NEW PLYMOUTH 39.1S 174.1E 0310Z 02 APR NAPIER 39.5S 176.9E 0316Z 02 APR WESTPORT 41.8S 171.2E 0332Z 02 APR AUCKLAND(E) 36.7S 175.0E 0332Z 02 APR WELLINGTON 41.5S 174.8E 0333Z 02 APR BLUFF 46.6S 168.3E 0351Z 02 APR NELSON 41.3S 173.3E 0426Z 02 APR LYTTELTON 43.6S 172.7E 0439Z 02 APR DUNEDIN 45.9S 170.5E 0506Z 02 APR MARCUS IS. MARCUS IS. 24.3N 154.0E 0138Z 02 APR WAKE IS. WAKE IS. 19.3N 166.6E 0141Z 02 APR AMERICAN SAMOA PAGO PAGO 14.3S 170.7W 0144Z 02 APR TONGA NUKUALOFA 21.0S 175.2W 0152Z 02 APR NIUE NIUE IS. 19.0S 170.0W 0209Z 02 APR COOK ISLANDS PUKAPUKA IS. 10.8S 165.9W 0212Z 02 APR PENRYN IS. 8.9S 157.8W 0316Z 02 APR RAROTONGA 21.2S 159.8W 0324Z 02 APR PHILIPPINES DAVAO 6.8N 125.7E 0215Z 02 APR LEGASPI 13.2N 124.0E 0248Z 02 APR ZAMBOANGA 7.0N 122.2E 0256Z 02 APR PALANAN 17.1N 122.6E 0307Z 02 APR LAOAG 18.2N 120.6E 0352Z 02 APR PUERTO PRINCESA 9.8N 119.0E 0404Z 02 APR SAN FERNANDO 16.6N 120.3E 0421Z 02 APR ILOILO 10.8N 122.8E 0438Z 02 APR MANILA 14.5N 120.8E 0517Z 02 APR JARVIS IS. JARVIS IS. 0.4S 160.1W 0256Z 02 APR PALMYRA IS. PALMYRA IS. 6.3N 162.4W 0300Z 02 APR JOHNSTON IS. JOHNSTON IS. 16.7N 169.5W 0308Z 02 APR JAPAN KATSUURA 35.1N 140.3E 0312Z 02 APR OKINAWA 26.2N 128.0E 0318Z 02 APR SHIMIZU 32.8N 132.8E 0359Z 02 APR KUSHIRO 42.8N 144.2E 0410Z 02 APR HACHINOHE 40.5N 141.8E 0415Z 02 APR 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.