NOAA Calls for Tsunami Warning System
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The U.S. weather chief called Wednesday for a global surveillance system to detect and forecast disasters like tsunamis, hoping the tragedy in Asia will build the political resolve to buy and deploy equipment.
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SYDNEY - Pressure built for an Indian Ocean tsunami-warning centre on Tuesday after frustrated scientists said they knew killer waves were speeding towards coastlines across Asia but was powerless to raise the alarm.
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A computer model that can predict the impact of a tsunami from the San Francisco Bay area to Alaska is helping scientists plot danger zones in coastal cities to guide emergency planning.
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Congress will investigate why the US government did not notify some nations lining the Indian Ocean of early indications that a deadly tsunami might be headed their way, a spokeswoman for Senator Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine, said yesterday.
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The UN is to oversee building a tsunami warning system for the Indian Ocean, which could be ready in 12 months.
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Japan launched a satellite-based alert system Friday that will instantly send warnings of tsunamis and updates on volcanic activity to help speed evacuations, an emergency official said.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Indochina Correspondent May Ying Welsh. PHUKET, Thailand : The Thai government will set up an inquiry into why the public was not given early warning of the tsunamis, which smashed into the kingdom&#39;s southern provinces.
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Tsunami warning systems in the Indian  Ocean have improved since the devastating 2004 Indonesian quake  but still have many flaws and produce false alerts or miss  potential threats, experts and officials said on Friday.
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Countries at risk from disasters like the Asian tsunami must invest in educating people about the threats and not just in technologies such as warning systems, the world's largest relief agency said on Wednesday.
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The United States needs serious repairs to its tsunami warning system, including the replacement of three warning buoys off Alaska, officials said on Wednesday.
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A tsunami warning system could be built in the Indian Ocean in just a year and cost as little as &#36;20 million, a scientist said Tuesday.
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The Bush administration unveiled a &#36;37.5 million plan Friday to erect a tsunami warning system designed to protect both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts by mid-2007.
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An early warning system would have made all the difference. Instead of being swept to their deaths by the Dec. 26 tsunami, tourists in Thailand and villagers in Sri Lanka could have been alerted to run for higher ground. Even Sumatrans near the epicenter might have recognized the danger posed by a coastal quake and dashed inland.
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A tsunami warning was issued for a group  of islands south of Tokyo on Wednesday after a strong  earthquake off Japan's eastern coast, and authorities urged  local residents to evacuate to higher ground.
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The U.S. weather agency didn't have the phone numbers nor staff to alert all Indian Ocean coastal countries when it saw the first signs that tsunamis could be heading their way, its top official said Thursday. He cautioned that the Caribbean and Atlantic also lack an early-warning system.
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THE devastating tsunami on Sunday was triggered by the fifth-largest quake for a century and the biggest for 40 years, which caused giant waves that could be detected across the planet.
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Faulty equipment, poor communications and cumbersome bureaucracy are being blamed for the failure of nations around the Indian Ocean's rim to warn communities about to be hit by one of the world's most devastating natural disasters.