WEPA40 RJTD 081800

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001

   ISSUED BY NWPTAC(JMA)

   ISSUED AT 1800Z 08 DEC 2016

PART 01 OF 01 PARTS



HYPOCENTRAL PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME:1739Z 08 DEC 2016

PRELIMINARY EPICENTER:LAT10.7SOUTH LON161.4EAST

 BOUGAINVILLE - SOLOMON ISLANDS REGION

 BISMARCK AND SOLOMON ISLANDS

MAG:8.0

BY PTWC



EVALUATION

 THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF A DESTRUCTIVE OCEAN-WIDE TSUNAMI



THIS BULLETIN IS FOR

MICRONESIA

NORTH COASTS OF SOLOMON ISLANDS

SOLOMON SEA



ESTIMATED TSUNAMI ARRIVAL TIME AND ESTIMATED TSUNAMI WAVE AMPLITUDE

MICRONESIA

 LOCATION              COORDINATES  ARRIVAL TIME  AMPL

 CHUUK_IS.             07.4N 151.8E 2118Z 08 DEC  1M

NORTH COASTS OF SOLOMON ISLANDS

 LOCATION              COORDINATES  ARRIVAL TIME  AMPL

 AUKI                  08.8S 160.6E 1809Z 08 DEC  2M

 KIRAKIRA              10.4S 161.9E 1749Z 08 DEC  6M

SOLOMON SEA

 LOCATION              COORDINATES  ARRIVAL TIME  AMPL

 MUNDA                 08.4S 157.2E 1810Z 08 DEC  1M

 HONIARA               09.3S 160.0E 1806Z 08 DEC  2M



AMPL - AMPLITUDE IN METERS FROM MIDDLE TO CREST



HOWEVER AT SOME COASTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE NEAR THE EPICENTER, HIGHER

TSUNAMIS MAY ARRIVE THAN OUR ESTIMATION AT THE NEARBY

FORECAST POINTS

AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS POSSIBILITY.



FURTHERMORE THE EVALUATION OF TSUNAMIGENIC POTENTIAL AND ESTIMATED

ARRIVAL TIME OF TSUNAMIS MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF PTWC

DUE TO DIFFERENCES IN THE ESTIMATED EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS

AUTHORITIES SHOULD USE THE EARLIEST ARRIVAL TIMES FOR

GREATEST SAFETY.



THIS WILL BE THE FINAL BULLETIN UNLESS THERE ARE CHANGES ABOUT

THE POTENTIAL OF TSUNAMI GENERATION BY RE-EVALUATION OF THE

EARTHQUAKE OR THERE ARE REPORTS ON TSUNAMI OBSERVATIONS.



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