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Upgrade to warning system on tsunamis is going slowly

Posted by: Maven on February 22, 2009 at 7:11 am

From the New York Times:

After a tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed hundreds of thousands of people in 2004, the American government moved to improve the nation’s tsunami warning systems. But some of the upgrades are temporary and have not been made to the highest standards. Bureaucracy has delayed others.

Charles McCreery, the director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, first thought the improvements, which began in 2005, would take about two and a half years. But Mr. McCreery now says the center’s efforts are only “more than halfway done.” The work includes moving some seismometers to better locations and acquiring permission from landowners to install monitors on their property.

“We initially thought it wouldn’t take us this long,” Mr. McCreery said. “We were probably a little naïve.” The center has made progress, he said. Its capabilities, he said, “are hugely better today than they were just a few years ago.”

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February 22, 2009 · Filed Under Oceans & Beaches

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