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    A tsunami warning system (TWS) is used to detect tsunamis in advance and issue the warnings to prevent loss of life and damage to property. It is made...
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  • Ocean Tsunami Warning System was set up to provide warning to inhabitants of nations bordering the Indian Ocean of approaching tsunamis. The tsunami warning...
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    The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), located on Ford Island, Hawaii, is one of two tsunami warning centers in the United States, covering Hawaii...
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    Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) is a component of an enhanced tsunami warning system. By logging changes in seafloor temperature...
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  • nationwide Tsunami Warning system (Japanese: 大津波警報・津波警報・津波注意報). The system usually issues warnings a few minutes after an Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) is...
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  • Russian tsunami warning system (Russian: Российская система предупреждения о цунами), also known as Russian tsunami warning service (Russian: Российская...
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    Fire alarm system Gale warning Ground proximity warning system Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System International Early Warning Programme J-Alert (Japan)...
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    The National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) is one of two tsunami warning centers in the United States, covering all coastal regions of the United States...
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    may not issue a tsunami warning. However, there are some warning signs of an impending tsunami, and automated systems can provide warnings immediately after...
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    and tsunami "is going to occur for sure" way back in 1994, was assigned the development of the Thai tsunami warning system. The Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning...
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    (NOAA) scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii eventually issued warnings of a possible tsunami from the large earthquake off Sumatra...
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    Following the tsunami, Indonesian authorities installed multiple emergency early warning systems in tsunami-prone areas. The newer system would detect...
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    eight to ten minutes of warning, and more than a hundred evacuation sites were washed away. The snowfall which accompanied the tsunami and the freezing temperature...
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  • Accordingly, on 15 October 2007, a centre housing the Indian Tsunami Early Warning System (TEWS) was established in INCOIS by the Ministry of Earth Sciences...
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  • the loss of human life would have been dramatically reduced, if a tsunami warning system, like the one that exists for the volcano-and-earthquake prone Pacific...
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    Teletsunami (redirect from Distant tsunami)
    called an ocean-wide tsunami, distant tsunami, distant-source tsunami, far-field tsunami, or trans-ocean tsunami) is a tsunami that originates from a...
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    tremors before a warning is issued. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the EEW system and Japan's tsunami warning system were considered effective...
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    20 km (12 mi) into the atmosphere. The government of Tonga issued a tsunami warning to residents, and waves of 30 cm (12 in) were observed in Nuku'alofa...
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  • that will far exceed the warning criteria. Emergency Warnings are intended for extraordinary phenomena such as the major tsunami caused by the 2011 Great...
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  • threat has resulted in international agreements to establish a tsunami warning system in place along the Indian Ocean coast. For about half its length...
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  • Thumbnail for List of tsunamis
    This article lists notable tsunamis, which are sorted by the date and location that they occurred. Because of seismic and volcanic activity associated...
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    July 2008). At ESSO-INCOIS, he set up a state-of-the-art Early Warning System for Tsunami and Storm Surges in the Indian Ocean. He was responsible for the...
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  • Paleotsunami (redirect from Ancient tsunami)
    Tsunami deposit Tsunami earthquake Tsunami warning system Tsunamis in lakes Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (2010). "Tsunami terms". United States...
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    Russian Tsunami Warning System Russian System of Disaster Management "Сливное землетрясение (цунами) 1952 года" [The 1952 drainage earthquake (tsunami)]. Local...
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    cancelled, but officials said that a tsunami warning system installed following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami had failed to function properly...
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  • wind speed; see Apparent wind True wireless stereo, in headphones Tsunami warning system Texas World Speedway, a road-racing track in College Station, Texas...
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    1976 Moro Gulf earthquake (category 1970s tsunamis)
    Astilla, Zinnia (1978). Moro Gulf Tsunami of 17 August 1978 (PDF). Quezon City: Special Committee on Tsunami Warning System, National Committee on Marine...
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    Cell Broadcast (category Emergency population warning systems)
    Kong - emergency alert system (EAS) first used on 9 March 2022. Iran Italy - IT-Alert Japan - Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System(also known as Emergency...
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    An early warning system is a warning system that can be implemented as a chain of information communication systems and comprises sensors, event detection...
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    of the Tōkai earthquakes Tsunami Major tsunami warning Tsunami warning Tsunami advisory Volcano eruption Emergency warning of volcanic eruption and the...
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