Fortunately, damage was relatively minimal. A tsunami warning was issued for coastal areas of the Pacific Northwest, including the San Francisco Bay area, then was canceled a couple of hours later.

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A tsunami warning system was built after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami catastrophe but can we ever be thoroughly prepared for ...

Banlue Choosin has been monitoring the seas around Thailand's southern Phang Nga province for signs of abnormality for nearly ...

Almost 1,000km off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves – a ...

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...

Maul among first to sound tsunami alarm The late George Maul, an oceanographer and tsunami expert at Florida Institute of Technology, warned for decades of inevitable tsunamis in Florida and the ...

Some parts of this system are regularly tested. Every Wednesday morning, for instance, two tsunami alarm systems play the national anthem to check that everything is in order. Approaching his 60th ...

Residents in disaster-prone areas also receive an SMS alert of an imminent tsunami, warning them to evacuate quickly. Before 2004, it would take anywhere from 15 to 50 minutes before an alarm ...