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AnotherCat · 12-01-2019, 11:25 PM

I am about 85% through and finding it an interesting book. I have a couple of things to pick apart but best left to later (no surprise in that, I'll wager

).

Bookworm_Girl: Your comment is very similar to here. Despite the severe risk from the Hikurangi Trench and damage from a quite big tsunami in a relatively unpopulated area in 1947 and flooding damage in several places from the 1960 Chile tsunami it has also really only been since the Indonesian tsunami that there has been much public interest in them here in NZ and that was heightened after the Japanese one.

My mother lived in the area of the 1947 tsunami as a teenager and later when we were children we were told by her to be careful of the signs (we lived on the banks of an exposed river estuary facing out to the East). As mentioned before we now have a cellular based alert system, some places have sirens and some blue lines painted across roads at the estimated maximum wave run-up heights so people know to evacuate inland from those; all just in the last couple of years.

Back when I was at school we were told what to do in an earthquake, nothing at all about what to do if there was a tsunami even though I was schooled in a seaside town.

12-01-2019, 11:25 PM	#9
AnotherCat .... Posts: 1,547 Karma: 18068960 Join Date: May 2012 Device: ....	I am about 85% through and finding it an interesting book. I have a couple of things to pick apart but best left to later (no surprise in that, I'll wager ). Bookworm_Girl: Your comment is very similar to here. Despite the severe risk from the Hikurangi Trench and damage from a quite big tsunami in a relatively unpopulated area in 1947 and flooding damage in several places from the 1960 Chile tsunami it has also really only been since the Indonesian tsunami that there has been much public interest in them here in NZ and that was heightened after the Japanese one. My mother lived in the area of the 1947 tsunami as a teenager and later when we were children we were told by her to be careful of the signs (we lived on the banks of an exposed river estuary facing out to the East). As mentioned before we now have a cellular based alert system, some places have sirens and some blue lines painted across roads at the estimated maximum wave run-up heights so people know to evacuate inland from those; all just in the last couple of years. Back when I was at school we were told what to do in an earthquake, nothing at all about what to do if there was a tsunami even though I was schooled in a seaside town.