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...clampdown a sign that Beijing has tired of running interference for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il and will back U.S. efforts to force Pyongyang into giving up its nuclear weapons? Unlikely, says Alexandre Mansourov, a North Korea expert at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii. China and North Korea have been at odds lately-Beijing warned against the missile tests-and there are "hurt feelings," he says. But "fundamentally it is a very tight relationship...
...they're still out to sea. By last month, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the U.N. body leading the international effort, declared that an interim alert system was up and running. Warnings would be relayed to Indian Ocean nations from existing tsunami-monitoring centers in Hawaii and Japan...
...UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committee, says the response to the Java tsunami actually represented a success for the interim warning system?and in a sense, he's right. Just 17 minutes after the earthquake struck off the coast of Java, scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii crunched the seismological data and sent a bulletin to colleagues in Jakarta, warning of the possibility of a local tsunami for land within 100 km of the temblor's epicenter. In the 2004 tsunami, those simple lines of communication did not exist. But that's the easy part. "The initial...
...warning was issued. "We issued a warning about the quake but not a tsunami," says Fauzi (he uses only one name), head of the Meterology and Geophysics Agency's technical department for tsunamis. He said the agency received an e-mail from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii 20 minutes after the quake, which was then passed on to 400 local authorities in charge of disaster management, as is standard procedure. The problem, he confesses, is what happens to the information after that. "It is not enough just to tell people," he says. "If they are not prepared...
...miles 900 to 1,200 miles 3,000 to 3,700 miles PAYLOAD 2,200 lbs. 2,200 lbs. 1,650 lbs. 1,700 lbs. 2,200 lbs. POSSIBLE TARGETS Parts of South Korea South Korea, parts of Japan South Korea, most of Japan Japan Alaska, parts of Hawaii...