http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/tsunami-radars-failing/story-e6frg6so-1225933565031
Tsunami radars 'failing' From: The Australian October 04, 2010 12:00AM A DETECTION system expanded after the Indian Ocean tsunami can no longer be relied on to detect the giant waves, a new report finds. The Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis system was expanded from six deep-ocean buoy stations to 39 in the months following the 2004 earthquake off Indonesia that left 230,000 dead. At any given time, 30 per cent or more of the buoys have been inoperable, according to a recent report from the National Research Council. An alarming number of buoys have broken moorings and drifted away while others have had sensor failures. "As a consequence of the pervasive outages of DART stations, the Tsunami Warning Centres cannot depend on the DART network for tsunami forecasting," said the report, which was commissioned by congress. The Cascade subduction zone, where tectonic plates collide off the coast of Washington, Oregon and northern California, is overdue for a mega-quake. The report called for more education of coastal residents and tourists about the dangers of tsunamis. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
