The Chile tsunami

The earthquake in Chile was an 8.8 – the 7th = strongest earthquake ever recorded. It was 500 times the strength of the Haiti quake, which shows how vital strong buildings are in mitigating effects – so far only 140 dead.

I was pleasantly surprised to receive text messages from Civil Defence alerting me to the tsunami advisories. I got them by e-mail also, but text messaging is far more effective as you tend to check a text immediately.

Civil Defence also now have a Twitter account, and Twitter is a very good medium for such announcements as people can retweet them quickly. Well worth people with Twitter subscribing.

The website has the latest advisory. The only area facing possible evacuation was Banks Peninsula.