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While experts say current warning systems work well to detect tsunami risks, get information out and form emergency plans, sometimes the process just can't work quickly enough.
Last week's earthquake off the coast of Humboldt County triggered a tsunami warning urging people across a huge swath of California and Oregon to evacuate. Why aren't tsunami warnings more precise?
How the Indian Ocean gets its tsunami early warnings For more than 40 years, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) has been alerting countries in the Pacific region to the dangers of killer waves.
Earthquake and tsunami warning systems both monitor the same thing: seismic waves. Seismic data takes the Earth’s pulse directly, so when the earth shakes, we get immediate feedback.
After last year's devastating earthquake in Chile, Brian Shiro of the Pacific Tsunami Warning System talked to us about the evolution of tsunami warning technology, which was tested again today as ...
How Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Systems Work The world’s only earthquake warning system likely helped limit damage and loss of life.
"The Japanese are very experienced in dealing with earthquakes." The system works — to the extent that it can Overall, the combined tsunami-warning infrastructure seemed to work pretty well today.
The Alaska-based tsunami warning center coordinated and issued warnings for the mainland United States and Canada, predicting when waves would hit and how big they would be when they came ashore.
While experts say current warning systems work well to detect tsunami risks, get information out and form emergency plans, sometimes the process just can't work quickly enough. Minutes matter when ...