Israeli company offers free tsunami alert system
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An Israeli company plans to distribute free to Asian countries hit by last week's tsunami a device that uses land and water sensors to measure seismic activity and wave motion that could indicate tsunamis.
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The State Department on Monday established a toll-free telephone number for inquiries about U.S. citizens affected by the Asian earthquake and tsunamis.
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World leaders promise an Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system after being urged to honour cash pledges.
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The Florida Chamber of Commerce and a vendor are offering all Florida businesses free e-mail protection services in case of a shutdown caused by a hurricane.
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With the anniversaries of the   September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina still fresh, a   software company says it has a solution for police, fire and   other emergency workers to communicate without buying new   radios.
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Organizations accepting donations for those affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
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Japan issues a tsunami alert for a group of islands south of Tokyo after a strong undersea earthquake.
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The warning system worked perfectly. From sensors far offshore, Japanese meteorologists detected a tsunami headed toward the southern island of Ishigaki in March 2002 and quickly warned residents of the possible danger.
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Tsunami warning systems in the Indian  Ocean have improved since the devastating 2004 Indonesian quake  but still have many flaws and produce false alerts or miss  potential threats, experts and officials said on Friday.
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The IDF has recently introduced a system that can detect Qassam rockets and provide the residents of Sderot with a 15 to 20 second warning before the rocket falls.
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Hawaii is among the most tsunami-ready places in the world. When an alert is issued, beachside sirens go off and urgent messages are flashed on television and broadcast on radio. Evacuation maps on telephone book covers point people to higher ground. But most of the time, no damaging tsunami hits the shore.
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Asian telecommunication carriers are mobilizing to help those affected by the weekend's devastating earthquakes off Indonesia and subsequent tsunami waves.
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The first of a planned network of tsunami early warning buoys is being installed in the Indian Ocean.
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(InfoWorld) - Governments seeking inexpensive technology to warn of tsunamis could be interested in a free software application that monitors vibrations in the hard disks of computers in an attempt to detect the underseaÂ earthquakes that cause tsunamis. The Tsunami Harddisk Detector is the brainchild of Michael Stadler, who demonstrated the prototype system earlier this week at the Ars Electronica exhibition in Linz, Austria. As part of their operation, hard disks measure vibrations in order to keep the read-write head of the disk on track. These measurements can be read from some hard disks. The Tsunami Harddisk Detector captures this vibration data and shares it with computers in other locations connected via a peer-to-peer network to determine whether an earth tremor is occurring. In the p-to-p network, several participating computers act as supernodes, which analyze the data received from the other "sensing" nodes. The supernodes are able to ignore vibrations generated by a computer being kicked or shaken, by recording how many computers report the same vibrations simultaneously. If an earthquake that could lead to a tsunami is detected, the supernodes inform the other nodes. Computers running the client software and connected to the p-to-p network can then warn of such events. The software is able to provide such warnings because the seismic waves produced by earthquakes travel at about 5,000 kilometers per hour, while tsunamis move much slower at 500 to 1,000 kilometers per hour, Stadler explains on hisÂ Web site. The speed difference leaves time to evaluate tremors and, if necessary, warn of a tsunami. On his Web site, however, Stadler points out that his system is still in the experimental stage with some inherent problems and can't be fully relied on to provide a "serious prediction" of a tsunami risk in its present configuration.
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A Japanese company has created a home  appliance the size of a paperback novel that can warn of  earthquakes seconds before they strike.
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Angry residents in  Indonesia&#39;s Aceh have disabled a tsunami warning system after a  false alarm spread panic in a province still traumatized by the  deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an official said on Thursday.
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Japan lifted a tsunami warning that was  issued for a group of islands south of Tokyo on Wednesday after  a strong earthquake off its eastern coast.