The request below is not important, but I am interested scientifically whether the tsunami modeling published yesterday agreed with reality. They published a model...they did not publish the actual travel times of the waves. I think it worthwhile to know how good the model was. This leads towards planning how to implement tsunami warning systems (I will have no involvement in that, but for all I know, John could).

I'd like to know when the first arrivals were in the Seychelles (give Island name or Lat-Long), Madagascar (give location), and especially Somalia...for example, Mogadishu.
I tried myself to find this information with a "google" search...but failed.

Im my experience, limited to reading EOS, tsunami modeling fails to reproduce the size of the tsunami....I think this was for smaller quakes around New Guinea....maybe Japan also...I have a vague recollection that the actual tsunami can be 5 or 10 times as large, locally, as was modeled...this probably has to do with local submarine slides and local bathymetric shape.
Chris