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Tsunami warnings prompted gridlocked traffic as people tried to reach higher elevations in Hawaii, but the threat level was ...
When an enormous 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the impact reached far beyond its ...
Warnings are now downgraded in most areas. The National Tsunami Warning Centre cancelled its tsunami advisory for coastal B.C ...
Assessing the Tsunami Warning System Two years after a tsunami devastated several Indian Ocean countries, a rudimentary warning system is in place. But coordination and funding concerns have ...
DR. CHARLES McCREERY, Director, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: We've probably responded to 50 earthquakes of this size or bigger over the last week and a half. And this will continue for a long ...
A proposed early warning system for earthquakes would have given Gulf of Alaska towns a lot more notice of the strong shaking that resulted from the 7.3 magnitude earthquake last ...
And last week a 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Japan sparked tsunami alerts across the country. The Japanese tsunami system worked very well, issuing alerts within minutes of the earthquake.
There was no early warning. After that event the German government in Berlin pledged $60 million to build such a system: engineering, data processing and geologic experience were readily available ...
"The absence of this system caused the failure to detect the tsunami in advance," he said. Indonesian authorities updated the death toll to at least 373 people Monday, with 1,459 people injured.
A massive landslide triggered a deadly tsunami in Chile, in 2007. This became a turning point in tsunami science and risk ...
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