NOAA Physicist
Your task is to investigate how tsunami early warning systems work, the improvements that were made, and how effective they are.
Review NOVA's Anatomy of a Tsunami interactive website to learn about the devastating 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Go back to the website you helped create, NOAA's Tsunami website, and the International Tsunami Information Center to look into how the public side of early warning systems work: how does word get out and what are people suppose to do?
Look into how the December 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean resulted in the development of a tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean.
- The United Nations pointed out there was a problem and applied pressure
- Read about how a tsunami early warning system is now in place in the Indian Ocean and how it works in Science Daily's article New Approach in Tsunami Early-Warning System. How does the new software make this system better suited for the Indian Ocean?
- Now explore this interactive flash on the Indian Ocean's early warning system and how it works. The flash, Indian Ocean Early Warning System was made by The Guardian in the United Kingdom.
- A really valuable sight is the German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) website
Improvements to the early warning system?
- Innovative Method Improves Tsunami Warning System, Offers New Insight
- NASA's version of the same new idea NASA Science Research Makes Waves In Science Community
Worldwide tsunami early warning system
- Read the article Wave of the Future by Peter Tyson to learn about what it will take to develop an early tsunami warning system worldwide.