Word: tsunami
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...Flooding Hurricanes regularly strike our coasts, but so do tsunamis, albeit with far less frequency. Major tsunamis have killed Americans and caused enormous damage three times in the past 60 years - in 1946, 1960 and 1964 - and a new one could strike at any 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...
...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...
...Pandemic Flu Seattle's King County could be struck at any time by an earthquake, tsunami or the eruption of nearby Mount Rainier. But the thing that has Eric Holdeman, director of the county's office of emergency management, really worried is the threat of a pandemic flu. "We expect to need 57,000 hospital beds," says Holdeman of a worst-case scenario. "We have 3,500. There's not enough ventilators, there's no vaccine, there's not enough Tamiflu...
...federal government announced a $A100 million relief package, and former Defence Force chief General Peter Cosgrove has been put in charge of the reconstruction effort. Some 450 State Emergency Services personnel have joined 300 soldiers, many of whom participated in the Banda Aceh relief effort after the 2004 tsunami...
...restrict its emergence as a major geopolitical power commensurate with its ever-growing economic clout. Chinese officials don't have to look far for evidence, as hawkish elements in Washington haven't been hiding their view of China as an emerging threat. Last January, in the wake of the tsunami, the Bush administration initially moved to circumvent the U.N. to deliver aid by instead partnering with Japan, Australia and India. More recently, Secretary Rice's comments in Australia that "all of us in the region, particularly those of us who are longstanding allies, have a joint responsibility and obligation...