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Old Mar 11, 2011 | 6:06 am
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Originally Posted by NickW
8.8 seems likely to be a typo - other reports are 7.4 to 7.9 and it's a base-10 log scale so that'd be 10 times more energetic.
It was uprated earlier to 8.8 on the Richter.

Note sure where this is most useful to go but here are the tsunami predicted earliest arrival times:
All times are UTC Friday 11th March 2011.
Taiwan: 09:40AM
Philipines 10:02AM
Indonesia 10:57AM
Hawaii 01:07AM
Australia 03:35PM
Mexico 04:50PM
Chile 11:03 PM
Peru 00:41 AM (Saturday 12th March)

http://www.weather.gov/ptwc/
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