[EAS] Recent Tsunami Watch

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

Larry,

Your policy sounds good to me.  Particularly in the case of a point of origin so far from  California there was plenty of time to see if a tsunami developed.

The situation might be somewhat different for a quake right near the CA or OR coastline... say, from the "triple junction" of faults just off Cape Mendocino.  We encourage folks to be attentive right after a felt quake, so your announcers might want to pass along whatever comes in as the audience may want to know.  I expect that's what they'd do anyway.

Art
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From: EAS <eas-bounces at radiolists.net> on behalf of Larry Wood <LWood at KQED.org>

Yesterday KQED-FM, the LP2, received a Tsunami Watch. Received at 1:46A from the NWS and at 2:00A from the LP1. There are two levels of Tsunami alert, Watch and Warning. It my understanding that a Watch is for something that Might happen and a Warning is for something the either IS happening or WILL happen soon. Therefore I choose to log watches and relay warnings. Our operators will decide if it is worthwhile to read the watch alert to the listeners. This usually works well for us, but what is the best practice for tsunamis? The watch was later canceled, but I know people who live nowhere near the coast who were awakened in the middle of the night from their Nixel alerts on their phones. It seems like coast sirens are the best warning system for tsunamis.

Anyone wish to chime in with an opinion?

Cheers,

Larry Wood, CPBE
KQED-FM

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