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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/6-0-magnitude-earthquake/2618508.html<snip>
WASHINGTON: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda Saturday (Mar 19), US experts said, but caused no tsunami warning or immediate reports of damage or injury.
The strong quake, which hit at 1126 GMT, struck at a depth of 24 kilometers (15 miles) with its epicenter located 153 kilometers northeast of the capital of Saint John's, according to the US Geological Survey.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue and alert.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Given that it is an Asian news website, whose readership may certainly understand the word "earthquake", but do not know where Antigua and Barbuda are, they included a note to their readers that there is no alert from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
One might imagine that when any number of Asian readers see "earthquake" in a headline, and if they didn't feel an earthquake, their next question is probably "is there a tsunami alert".
Granted, they could figure that out by looking up the Caribbean on a map, but why risk alarming readers who don't know where it is?
malaise
(269,144 posts)Nowhere in the Pacific could have been under any threat
http://www.tsunami-alarm-system.com/en/phenomenon-tsunami/occurrences-atlantic-ocean.html
You only know that because you know where the Caribbean is, and where Antigua and Barbuda are.
It's an Asian news website. You can't expect your readers to have a grasp on geology or geographic, but they are pretty twitchy about the word "earthquake".
Tectonically, the "Caribbean Plate" edge includes the Pacific coast region of Central America and the northwestern part of South America:
So a quake on the Caribbean Plate can spawn Pacific tsunamis.
If you asked people in the US, which is a lot closer than Asia, where are Antigua and Barbuda, the vast majority would have no flipping idea.
But, yeah, it's an Asian news website, so they include a mention that there was no danger of a tsunami.
malaise
(269,144 posts)Well had I written it I would have been an alert and I would have added that Antigua and Barbuda are in the Atlantic Caribbean.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)All I ask is a 5% commission on the lucrative career you are about to begin with them.
malaise
(269,144 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I have them beating down my door requesting to be put in contact with you, and this is what I get for thanks. Yeesh!
annabanana
(52,791 posts)over the course of the last few years, that ANY report of an earthquake, and ANY possibility of a tsunami anywhere on Earth could be a trigger. It may have just been a kindness to the shellshocked.
malaise
(269,144 posts)Maybe I'm too focused on the location and distance
annabanana
(52,791 posts)So . . what are more local sources saying about it?
malaise
(269,144 posts)it was on radio here in Jamaica
JHB
(37,161 posts)...Asian readership who would be particularly sensitive to tsunamis. Thus a line clarifying that the Pacific tsunami warning system gives an "all clear, doesn't affect us" is not entirely out of place.
malaise
(269,144 posts)Thanks