Thursday morning I noticed a worrying message from the Indian Tsunami
Early Warning Centre:
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:29:03 +0530 ...
IOTWMS-TSP INDIA has detected an earthquake with the following
preliminary information:
Magnitude : 8.5 M
Depth : 10 km
Date : 20 JUN 2018
Origin Time: 2154UTC ...
... this earthquake may be capable of generating a tsunami
affecting the Indian Ocean region."
https://lists.unesco.org/wws/arc/tsunami-information-ioc/2018-06/msg00000.html
This was alarming because an 8.5 magnitude earthquake is extremely
large. But then I noticed the location was given as "TEST_TEST_CENTRAL
CHILE".
As confirmed later, this was a test message which escaped from the
internal system, out to the public:
Subject: [Tsunami Message - IOC] CANCELLATION MESSAGE ...
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 05:33:31 +0530
IOTWMS TSUNAMI SERVICE PROVIDER INDIA (ITEWC)
This is not a real event. This event was issued due to an
operator error during an internal test...
https://lists.unesco.org/wws/arc/tsunami-information-ioc/2018-06/msg00001.html
It took two hours to issue the correction, which is a long time.
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