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Pacific states hold tsunami test

BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4988492.stm
More than 30 countries around the Pacific Ocean have tested a system to warn them of approaching tsunamis.
The exercise began with a mock alert at the Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii.
An earthquake with a magnitude 9.2 was imagined to have struck near the coast of Chile, sending a tsunami racing across the eastern Pacific.
A [...]

Mapping disaster research

NSF EXPLORATORY WORKSHOP ON SENSOR BASED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EARLY TSUNAMI DETECTION, Maui, Feb 9-10, 2006
What I learned during my visits to the Civil Defense Center and the Tsunami Museum in Hilo and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach in Hawai’i last January greatly contributed to the disaster communication research program undertaken by LIRNEasia [...]

Trip Report, Honolulu, January 16-19, 2005

The original purpose of the visit was to participate in a super session on “Strategies for implementing universal access.” The session was well attended and useful.
My presentation was Expanding Access to ICTs (Powerpoint)
Along with Bill Melody’s forceful comments it clearly established the importance of market and regulatory reforms, a position that may otherwise have [...]

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