Sentences with phrase «tsunami warning networks»

In his nomination letter, Corden wrote that Zerbo responded to the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia by making diplomatic arrangements to ensure that seismic data could be provided swiftly to tsunami warning networks.

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In 1755, long before global seismograph networks or tsunami warning systems, a powerful earthquake hit Portugal, devastating the cosmopolitan city but also inspiring a new, scientific approach to understanding Earth's shudders.

A continuous GPS network could easily detect this fitful acceleration, well before ground - shaking earthquakes began to occur and, with luck, in plenty of time for a useful tsunami warning.

However, seafloor - based tsunami warning systems are sparse, with an open ocean network of only about 50 buoys developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Even so, the report said that since the buildup of the DART network it has «experienced significant outages that can have adverse impacts on the capability of the Tsunami Warning Centers to issue efficient warnings, to use near real - time forecasts, and to cancel warnings.»