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New early warning system could have saved lives during the 2011 Japan tsunami

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New early warning system could have saved lives during the 2011 Japan tsunami
30
May

Simulations assessing how the system would have responded to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake show that a tsunami alarm would have been raised in 7 minutes or less, thus might had saved many of the 22,000 killed by the massive tsunami that followed the earthquake.


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