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Article: Satellites, buoys and sensors help scientists track earth and ocean conditions.
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- January 10, 2005
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A host of technologies to protect Southern California from natural disasters are either in place or in development. Some of them cost millions of dollars, others mere thousands, but all are aimed at providing better, earlier warnings of pending calamities. Here's a review:
Tsunameters
The Pacific tsunami warning system is anchored by seven buoys tethered to the ocean floor. The state-federal DART program, an acronym for Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis, has planted buoys off the coasts of Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest. The government of Chile has another buoy anchored 300 miles off of South America.
Each one weighs ...