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...time, according to the USGS. Despite the risk, only 27 coastal communities have the warning systems and evacuation plans they would need to be certified Tsunami Ready by the National Weather Service. "There should be more, and we're working aggressively to increase that number dramatically," says Troy Nicolini, the service's warning coordination meteorologist. "The scary thing is, the farther we get away from that event in the Indian Ocean, the [more the] momentum dies down and the funding dries...
...tsunami in the Indian Ocean - which killed nearly a quarter million people - led to plans to beef up the number of monitoring buoys in the Pacific. The buoys can provide up to six hours' warning, says Nicolini, if the waves are coming from far across the ocean. But an earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction zone just off the Pacific Northwest could create tsunami-size waves within five minutes. "You'd feel that kind of an earthquake on land," Nicolini says. "If you do, start running to higher ground" - at least 40 feet above sea level. For residents of low-lying...
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