Warning System Urged for Indian Ocean Region

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › December 29, 2004

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South Asian officials are calling for the creation of an Indian Ocean warning system, and Japan -- home of the world's most advanced tsunami alert system -- is offering to help build it.

While most systems can take several minutes to determine if a quake poses a tsunami threat, Japan has developed technology within the past year that can calculate the size, speed and direction of a nascent tsunami within seconds.

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Warning System Urged for Indian Ocean Region

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