THE National Emergency Operations Centre in Honiara on Thursday night cancelled the tsunami warning it issued earlier that day. The centre said based on the latest information and tsunami threat re-assessment, all the Tsunami Watch advices that for Temotu had already being cancelled by the Solomon Islands Meteorological Services It said people near the coast…
AN Observation Research program is currently underway to assist the Meteorological Service and the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) monitor natural disasters in the country. Called the Tsunami, Earthquake, and Cyclone (TEC) project, it was being headed by a team from the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) of Taiwan. As part of the project, 14 small…
The 16-seater shudders on the breeze. Below, a small grid of unsealed roads runs through a village of fibro buildings ringed by palm and jungle trees. A contracting grass airstrip dips at each end into the blue of the Pacific. It could be the setting for a film about the end of the world. And…