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- Title
Solo efforts hamper tsunami warning system.
- Authors
Cryanoski, David
- Abstract
The article reports on efforts to set up a joint tsunami warning system for the Indian Ocean. Observers have cautioned that the job is being made harder by a lack of coordination and data sharing between countries. The most concrete plans for hardware to support a warning system have been laid out by India. It has pledged to spend U.S. $30 million from February 2005 to expand its network of tide gauges, seismic stations and tsunameters, ocean-bottom monitors that can detect changes in pressure from a mere one-centimetre-high wave. Germany plans to spend some U.S. $40 million adding ten new generation tsunameters and 40 seismic stations in and around Indonesia.
- Subjects
INDIAN Ocean; TSUNAMI warning systems; TSUNAMIS; PACIFIC Tsunami Warning &; Mitigation System; NATURAL disasters; OCEAN waves
- Publication
Nature, 2005, Vol 433, Issue 7024, p343
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/433343a