This morning at 5am I awoke to the sound of a txt message from family in the UK… it read "Just heard on our TV that a possible tsunami is heading your way…". A little worrying one might say.

I know it was the middle of the night here and that this was no doubt "breaking news" on the evening news programs in the northern hemisphere but I was stunned by the complete lack of coverage provided by the NZ media. The only news I was able to view to find out what was happening was BBC World and Australia's Sky News (and they're at least 2 hours behind us so that kinda kills the "middle of the night" argument!).

While I don't subscribe to the CNN theory of taking next to no information and recycling it for hours, it would be nice if the media here actually took enough interest to keep people informed… all we got was a brief "there was an earthquake near Tonga and we may have got a tsunami" on the 6am news!

As it turns out thankfully there was no tsunami, well not a big damage causing one at least, and the warning was cancelled, but this highlights just how vulnerable we are on this little rock in the South Pacific. Makes you stop and think…