US to design global tsunami warning system
A design is emerging from the state department’s Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN) for protecting huge populations in coastal areas, and will be presented to the United Nations-sponsored World Conference on Disaster Reduction this month in Kobe, Japan.
US Senator Joe Lieberman is proposing legislation to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) establish a system of up to 50 buoy-based sensors throughout the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans and the Caribbean Sea.
