Sentences with phrase «tsunami warning systems»

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).

Without enforcement of building codes or tsunami warning systems, a repeat of such an event will kill thousands.

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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.

Helble quickly studied tsunami warning systems.

One indispensable and thankless Unesco task is organizing tsunami warnings systems and pushing for tsunami education on risky shores around the world.

After the 2011 tsunami disaster in Japan, a $ 450 million cabled tsunami warning system with 154 sensor nodes was built.

Go to the U.S. Tsunami Warning System website or visit the website of your U.S. local Weather Forecast Office.

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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.

Here and in other tsunami - prone regions, the system may be able to provide more advanced warning before a tsunami reaches shore.

The residents of India and Sri Lanka had almost two hours to move to higher ground after seismographs first registered the quake that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, but because those regions lacked a warning system, tens of thousands perished.

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.

«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.

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.

In principle, such a system would be similar to the one in the United States, where tsunami warnings are handled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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

Dunham and Kozdon pointed out that identifying a tsunami signature doesn't complete the warning system.

Unfortunately, no warning system was in place to alert the dozen countries struck by the December tsunami.

Specifically, the team observed the height of waves near the coast, and studied the limitations and possible improvements of the existing system of tsunami warnings and advisories.

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

After hearing about the 8.9 earthquake in Japan and the tsunami wave that ensued I wondered if there was a warning system to those camping on the Napali Coast?

In visits to Unesco's Jakarta office, where disaster warning systems and education piled upon already full plates, I often encountered a scrappy lot of staffers working on tsunami issues — a welcome antidote to the pencil - pushing image of U.N. bureaucrats we're often fed.

This may enable better tsunami early warning systems.

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Scientists will discuss new systems they developed to improve real - time warnings of natural hazards like earthquakes, tsunamis and extreme weather events.

Besides its role in ensuring that no nuclear explosion escapes detection, the system generates a wealth of scientific data that can be applied, for example, to tsunami warnings, probing the Earth's structure, tracking emissions from nuclear accidents, analyzing meteor blasts and volcano eruptions, listening to whales or environmental monitoring of the atmosphere and oceans.

In January 2005 the Bush Administration committed $ 37.5 million to expand the current global tsunami detection and warning systems.

In Chennai, there is a suggestion on sensor - based water level monitoring, along with a surveillance system to forecast and generate warnings for floods and tsunamis.

As Japan awoke on Saturday to the devastation left by the one - two punch of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a deadly tsunami, Japanese officials warned that damage to a coastal nuclear reactor may have resulted in a radiation leak after its cooling system was knocked offline on Friday.