However, NOAA's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center indicates this event is not tsunamigenic (my word of the day):
TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001Still, quite an event on F&M's seismograph (click on the seismogram for a larger image):
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1746Z 11 FEB 2009
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 1735Z 11 FEB 2009
COORDINATES - 3.8 NORTH 126.8 EAST
DEPTH - SHALLOWER THAN 100 KM
LOCATION - TALAUD ISLANDS INDONESIA
MAGNITUDE - 7.4
EVALUATION
NO DESTRUCTIVE WIDESPREAD TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS BASED ON
HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.
HOWEVER - EARTHQUAKES OF THIS SIZE SOMETIMES GENERATE LOCAL
TSUNAMIS THAT CAN BE DESTRUCTIVE ALONG COASTS LOCATED WITHIN
A HUNDRED KILOMETERS OF THE EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER. AUTHORITIES
IN THE REGION OF THE EPICENTER SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS
POSSIBILITY AND TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION.
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