U.S. improves tsunami warning system.(CAPITOL BEAT)

Claims, May, 2005

The federal government has earmarked $37.5 million over the next two years for expansion of the nation's tsunami detection and warning capabilities as part of the Global Earth Observation System, an international effort to develop a comprehensive, sustained, and integrated observation system.

"This plan will enable enhanced monitoring, detection, warning, and communications that will protect lives and property in the United States and a significant part of the world," said John H. Marburger III, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The investment will allow the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to deploy 32 new, advanced-technology, deep-ocean assessment and reporting of tsunami buoys by mid-2007, in addition, the...

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