Hello,
what is the risk for tsunami happening in Cyprus now? And are there warning systems?
After the devastating disaster in Turkey, Italy issued a tsunami warning. I had to double-read the article, because it was very weird to me. There is more logic that Cyprus, Greece, etc. issued such alert, but still no information on the internet. Italy later withdrew the warning: [https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/italy-withdraws-tsunami-warning-after-turkey-syria-earthquake-2023-02-06/](https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/italy-withdraws-tsunami-warning-after-turkey-syria-earthquake-2023-02-06/).
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Are we not too close for there to be a tsunami? Actually I have no fucking idea.
Edit: As close as 100km away from the source of the earthquake according to Google.
OP, please go to your nearest beach and give us an update. Thanks.
Apparently there was a small one in Famagusta.
I felt the quake at 3:20am. It felt very similar in Thailand in 2004, so that brought back some bloody terrible memories. Not sure how much later it was, maybe 15? 20? minutes later I heard some very heavy pounding down by the sea (my house is just up 100m from the coast in Paralimni). However big the wave was, it shook the house. So I’d say the risk of a tsunami was 100%.
Heard there was a very small tsunami wave at famagusta.
It really depends on the epicentre of the earthquake. I don’t know where the fault lines are located around Cyprus though to tell you whether a tsunami can occur that will put people’s lives in danger. But, that would surely be an extremely rare case. As for the earthquake in Turkey, no… that’s not how tsunamis work. I think the earthquake’s epicentre would have to be in the sea right outside our island to have a tsunami and especially one that‘s dangerous.