[LINK] Re: Tsunami Warnings all about politics and cooperation

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Not sure how earthquakes  affect lakes - but based on experience of a
small quake in perth, they have quite a dramatic effect on swimming pools.

But I guess canberrans are now looking at bushfire warnings.

I would have thought there is/should be a clause in the 
telecommunications act - that would allow the broadcast of relevant 
warnings to all mobile phones.

Marghanita
Howard Lowndes wrote:
> ...and the risk of tsunami in Canberra is...?
> 
> I think that with the airport elevation at 1888' it would be a _big_ 
> tsunami accompanied by massive global warming :)
> 
> Tom Worthington wrote:
> 
>> I wrote Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:44:07 +1100:
>>
>>> Perhaps we should bypass the usual approach and build an Internet 
>>> style, Internet based warning system? ...
>>
>>
>>
>> I now get Tsunami warnings on my phone.
>>
>> I noticed that my e-mail provider had added an SMS alert option, so I 
>> configured it to send Tsunami warnings to my phone. I can then look at 
>> the full bulletin using the phone's web interface. The Tsunami 
>> bulletins are formatted for telex (text with no graphics) and so 
>> display well on a phone.
>>
>> Each warning has to go from the Pacific Center in Hawaii to the UNESCO 
>> Interim Indian Ocean system, to my mail host, to the phone company and 
>> then the phone. But on a good day all that should take less than a 
>> minute.
>>
>> The catch with this is that every time there is a earthquake in the 
>> Pacific or Indian oceans I will get an SMS message (and charged 25 
>> cents for it). Looking up the bulletin on the web to see where it is 
>> costs about another 30 cents.
>>
>>
>>
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