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  2. Tsunami warning system - Wikipedia

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    Tsunami warning system in East Timor. Regional (or local) warning system centers use seismic data about nearby recent earthquakes to determine if there is a possible local threat of a tsunami. Such systems are capable of issuing warnings to the general public (via public address systems and sirens) in less than 15 minutes.

  3. Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis - Wikipedia

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    Roughly $13.8 million of the governments funding was used to procure and install exactly 32 pressure sensors on the ocean bottom to detect tsunamis and collect data such as the height and speed of the approaching tsunami. This proposed system, stated by the John H. Marburger the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, should ...

  4. Earthquake-generated tsunamis not uncommon in US. How ... - AOL

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    The last tsunami warning in the San Francisco Bay Area followed a 9.1 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan that sparked a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 ...

  5. National Tsunami Warning Center - Wikipedia

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    The National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) is one of two tsunami warning centers in the United States, covering all coastal regions of the United States and Canada, except Hawaii, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Until 2013, it was known as the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.

  6. Tsunami Warning for California Ends After 7.0-Magnitude ... - AOL

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    No destruction was reported from a tsunami warning issued on Thursday, Dec. 5, for residents of the Northern California area in the wake of a serious earthquake in the Pacific Ocean. "No tsunami ...

  7. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center - Wikipedia

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    In some regions, tsunami sirens are used to help alert the public. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), located on Ford Island, Hawaii, is one of two tsunami warning centers in the United States, covering Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea.

  8. Gov. Green declares April Tsunami Awareness Month - AOL

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    Today, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center monitors for potential tsunamis throughout the Pacific Ring of Fire (areas with active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes ), 24 hours a day, 7 days a week ...

  9. International Early Warning Programme - Wikipedia

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    It is believed that the loss of human life would have been dramatically reduced, if a tsunami warning system, like the one that exists for the volcano-and-earthquake prone Pacific Rim, had been operational in the Indian Ocean. Technology, such as tremor and tidal gauges, fast data transfer and alarm mechanisms, used in combination with training ...