cs tsunami prediction

• Tsunamis


  • Difficult to predict
  • Caused by earthquakes and underwater volcanoes
• Tsunamis


  • Kick 'em Jenny in Grenada has grown 50m since 1970 and is considered a tsunami risk
• Tsunami warning systems


  Effective systems have existed since 1948 in the Pacific with 50 tidal stations and 30 seismograph stations
• Tsunami warning systems now include satellite monitoring run by NOAA
• Warnings can be long

  Ecuador tsunami to Hawaii is 12 hours, Aleutian tsunami to Hawaii is 5 hours
• The 2003 Indonesian Boxing Day tsunami mostly hit low-income countries with no warning systems
• Governments try to plan to reduce impacts of future events


  1. After South Asian tsunami of 2004:

  2. Before the event, a tsunami early-warning system was not in place in the Indian Ocean

  3. Following the event, as well as emergency rescue, rehabilitation and reconstruction, governments and aid agencies in the region developed a system to reduce the impacts of future tsunamis