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...allegedly buying gallons of chemicals at beauty-supply shops and renting a cheap hotel suite to cook them in, Zazi might have remained anonymous long enough to strike and kill, except that U.S. Homeland Security is a sharper instrument than it was in the summer of 2001. The dysfunctional system that failed to connect the dots before 9/11 managed, eight years later, to spot and disrupt a plot in progress. Zazi has denied charges he conspired to bomb targets in the U.S., but government officials are confident they've got their man. Authorities took notice when Zazi traveled last year...
...that two other alleged bombing attempts were foiled in Middle America - tells us that post-9/11 security measures, many of them highly controversial, are working. But there is bad news too. Zazi's alleged project, from the training camp in Pakistan to his bomb recipe and backpack delivery system, bears the marks not of some fluky local scheme of the kind that the feds have sniffed out in the past but of a plausible al-Qaeda operation. Nor does Zazi appear to be a lone sympathizer or a copycat egged on by an FBI informant. He apparently had marching...
...Pacific caused a massive tsunami that devastated the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, killing 111 people, ravaging villages and flattening homes. The earthquake struck at 6:48 a.m. and measured 8.3 on the Richter scale. By 7:04 a.m., an emergency alert went out from the Tsunami Warning System, a global network of sensors monitored by scientists. Less than 10 minutes later, the tsunami, with waves measuring nearly 15 ft. high, hit land...
When it comes to surviving a tsunami, every preparation - and every second - counts. In 2004 an earthquake off the coast of Indonesia launched the massive Indian Ocean Tsunami, which killed more than 230,000 people. While the Pacific has had a Tsunami Warning System in place since 1965, it was only after that disaster that Indian Ocean nations developed one of their own. As many as 95% of tsunamis are local, Kong says, striking within an hour of the earthquake - the 2004 disaster included. That time frame gives community members little time to react - even if they are aware...
...Pacific's Tsunami Warning System is jointly operated by three control centers, in Japan, Alaska and Hawaii, where it has its headquarters. It uses earthquake information from seismic stations that are part of the Global Seismic Network overseen by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Geological Survey, with contributing instruments, data and cash from countries around the world. The centers can cost hundreds of millions of dollars just to implement, Kong says, with the money coming from the countries that support each center as well as from donors like the Red Cross and U.N. organizations. When an earthquake...