Planning is now seven-tenths complete on how the region will respond in the wake of a tsunami brought on by a Magnitude 9 offshore earthquake. Last week, a three-day workshop was organised to get a catastrophic plan (CATPlan) for the region 70 percent complete, which was done. A key finding from the workshop was while it had been estimated to take 1 hour 40 minutes to completely evacuate the CBD and Awapuni zone, the first of several tsunami waves was expected just 25 minutes after a magnitude 9 tremor.

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