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Panic briefly set in among Bureau of Meteorology app users across the country on Wednesday morning when they received a tsunami warning for areas as far inland as Canberra. However, the shocked users breathed a sigh of relief when it became apparent BOM was testing a new tsunami early warning system for Australia. The test message triggered alarm along the east coast of Australia, with residents in Wollongong through to Queensland posting to social media about the alert.
” Another person replied, saying the message “would have given quite a few people a fright”. The government posted warnings of the test on the increasingly disused X social media platform, however many app users were oblivious. Although it claimed to have also sent app users a pre-test warning, some users denied that was the case. The BOM later said in a statement there was “no tsunami threat to Australia”.
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