Sentences with phrase «early tsunami warning»

This has many applications including early tsunami warning, but also offers a cheap alternative to acoustic monitoring with a moored hydrophone array which requires a ship to retrieve the data.

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These initial results provide fundamental insights into the behavior of rare, very large earthquakes that may aid in preparation and early warning efforts for future tsunamis following subduction zone earthquakes.

These efforts were taken with the goal of improving early warnings of possible tsunamis.

TSUNAMI warnings could reach vulnerable coastlines within minutes, thanks to an early - warning system that gauges how long an earthquake rumbles.

The German - Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) is being developed by a team led by Jörn Lauterjung of the National Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany.

When an earthquake sets off a tsunami, it releases speedy sound waves that could give us early warning.

Early reports suggest at least five people have been killed and millions have been evacuated from the nearby Chilean coast, as Tsunami warnings spread around the Pacific.

The GPS sensors in smartphones could be used as part of a crowdsourcing system to issue early earthquake and tsunami warnings, scientists report in the 10 April issue of Science Advances.

Dr Raby says: «After the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean, much of the world's efforts concentrated on tsunami early warning and evacuation.

«One of the main purposes here is to provide a tsunami early warning system,» Nakamura said.

Fortunately, they may soon be protected by a tsunami early warning system — the kind of system that was fatally absent in the nations struck last December.

«This event did not produce a tsunami,» Segall says, «but if we can detect potentially catastrophic ground motion in its early stages, we might be able to issue tsunami warnings in the future.»

A month after a magnitude - 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile, the country's scientific community says it needs millions in aid and wants control over the country's tsunami early - warning system.

And much public anger focused on Chile's navy, which failed to provide an early warning about the tsunami that followed the quake.

The technique could be applied worldwide to create an early warning system for massive tsunamis.

One of her main research interests lies in analyzing seismic energy and how it can be related to other important aspects of the seismic source, and to identify seismic factors related to tsunami early warning and damage potential.

Earlier in the year, the British Medical Journal warned that a «tsunami of obesity» threatened all nations equally if nothing is done.

«Much like emergency systems that sound a warning of natural disasters, such as hurricanes or tsunamis, educational EWS [early warning systems] signal school staff...

Magnitude - 6.5 quake on Indonesian island activates tsunami early warnings, prompting thousands to evacuate coastal areas

The Japanese benefited from an earthquake early warning («NowCast») of tens of seconds, a tsunami warning of ten or so minutes, tsunami walls on many shores and harbors, and good construction quality.

This may enable better tsunami early warning systems.

A large cyclone in 1970 caused 500,000 deaths, but a similar cyclone in the same area in late 2007 (including a tsunami - like 2 - metre - high sea water intrusion) caused only 8000 deaths, though affecting the houses or livelihoods or 8 million people: most of the more exposed people received early warning, and took refuge in thousands of government - built cyclone shelters, chiefly schools and other public buildings, made of concrete and other hard materials, and built upon 12 - 15 feet high concrete pillars.

Still early, but here are the details we know from USGS: Magnitude 8.0 — 96 km SW of Pijijiapan, Mexico Time 2017-09-08 04:49:17 (UTC) Location15.029 ° N 93.807 ° W Depth 35.0 km From the Pacific tsunami warning center: TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST ---------------- * HAZARDOUS TSUNAMI WAVES FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT THREE HOURS ALONG SOME COASTS OF MEXICO... GUATEMALA..tsunami warning center: TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST ---------------- * HAZARDOUS TSUNAMI WAVES FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT THREE HOURS ALONG SOME COASTS OF MEXICO... GUATEMALA..TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST ---------------- * HAZARDOUS TSUNAMI WAVES FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT THREE HOURS ALONG SOME COASTS OF MEXICO... GUATEMALA..TSUNAMI WAVES FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT THREE HOURS ALONG SOME COASTS OF MEXICO... GUATEMALA... EL...

The device supports the emergency mail function to receive the disaster and evacuation information and the earthquake and tsunami early warnings.