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The Tsunami Warning System (TWS) in the Pacific, comprised of 26 participating international Member States, has the functions of monitoring seismological and tidal stations throughout the Pacific Basin to evaluate potentially tsunamigenic earthquakes and disseminating tsunami warning information. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) is the operational center of the Pacific TWS. Located near Honolulu, Hawaii, PTWC provides tsunami warning information to national authorities in the Pacific Basin.
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information quoted from http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/warning/warning.html
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It consists of two equally important components: a network of sensors to detect tsunamis and a communications infrastructure to issue timely alarms.There are two distinct types of tsunami warning systems: international and regional. Both depend on the fact that, while tsunamis travel at between 500 and 1,000 km/h (around 0.14 and 0.28 km/s) in open water, earthquakes can be detected almost at once as seismic waves travel with a typical speed of 4 km/s (around 14,400 km/h)
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information obtain from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_warning_system
The Tsunami Warning System (TWS) in the Pacific, comprised of 26 participating international Member States, has the functions of monitoring seismological and tidal stations throughout the Pacific Basin to evaluate potentially tsunamigenic earthquakes and disseminating tsunami warning information. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) is the operational center of the Pacific TWS. Located near Honolulu, Hawaii, PTWC provides tsunami warning information to national authorities in the Pacific Basin.
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information quoted from http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/warning/warning.html
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It consists of two equally important components: a network of sensors to detect tsunamis and a communications infrastructure to issue timely alarms.There are two distinct types of tsunami warning systems: international and regional. Both depend on the fact that, while tsunamis travel at between 500 and 1,000 km/h (around 0.14 and 0.28 km/s) in open water, earthquakes can be detected almost at once as seismic waves travel with a typical speed of 4 km/s (around 14,400 km/h)
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information obtain from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_warning_system
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http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/warning/warning.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_warning_system
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/warning/warning.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_warning_system
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