Tsunami coming to Pacific islands in <2 hours

FYI, BBC is reporting a tsunami is heading towards the Pacific islands. It may arrive in less than 2 hours. If you're on the northern coast (or any coast of a small island) you should get to higher ground. The epicenter is in Japan.

Stay safe friends!

Anyone with any news? Be safe- and those of you on the islands- please let us know what is happening where ever you are.

I may have a first person report a week from now as I am expecting visitors from one of the most vulnerable villages in Solomon Islands. If they are OK, everyone else should be.

Honiara came through okay, in fact nothing happened. But I don't know yet about the more northerly islands, like Choiseul. Will post when/if I hear anything.

I just had a look at this, and it seems the warning for the Solomons is not serious:

http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=pacific.2011.03.07.002144

Let's just hope it stays that way!

Nothing in Samoa as well. We did not even have an alarm, just an alert.

But I just saw that apparently there had been quite some damage much further away - in California. See here

It seems to have been the wave that headed East that has caused the damage away from Japan - although nothing like the local horror that was caused in Japan itself, as the ongoing TV coverage is revealing.

Watsoff, I saw that one too - it actually refers to a previous 6.6 quake in the Solomons (between Honiara, Kira Kira and Rennel).
Being the weekend, it is hard to get any news from there. I havve tried to phone my friend in Honiara who is organising the group from Kia, but as usual there is no service. (Her phone is a mobile).

A friend has just returned to Australia from Fiji. The resort she was staying in was evacuated to higher ground as a precaution, but there was no damage.

Ooops, must learn to look at dates more closely ... I haven't heard from Florence in Choiseul, not yet anyway. Here's hoping...

We all headed for the hills in Hawaii. Most of the state was ok but there were some boat harbours where boats got damaged and sunk from all the wild swirling water. Kona and Kealakekua on the big island had some flooding and damage...one house actually taken out into the bay. So there was enough damage to make you realise that it was good and right to get up into the hills and stay there for the night eating bread and peanut butter.

Pictures out of Japan are shocking and many in Hawaii now concerned about radiation fall out coming this way.

aloha

Some damage in Isabel, none in Honiara. No contact from my friend, but I got home late tonight.