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NOAA Launches Final Two Buoys to Complete U.S. Tsunami Warning System

NOAA deployed the final two tsunami detection buoys in the South Pacific this week, completing the buoy network and bolstering the U.S. tsunami warning system. This vast network of 39 stations provides coastal communities in the Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico with faster and more accurate tsunami warnings.

Scientologists Helping On The Front Lines

In the wake of the Tsunami, my friend called his wife and informed her that he was going to take an immediate leave from his sales job for several weeks to travel thousands of miles to villages he d never heard of to help people he d never met in a culture he knew little about. That he was a member of my church s Volunteer Ministers group meant only that I, as a scientologist, was fortunate enough to hear about his determination...

Tsunami Hits Solomons; 8 Reported Dead

Police and residents said a wave about 10 feet high struck the western town of Gizo, inundating buildings and causing widespread destruction. A man who answered the telephone at the Gizo police station said there were initial reports that eight people, six of them children, had been killed by the tsunami but they were still unconfirmed. The phone cut out abruptly before the man gave his name.

Hundreds dead in Java tsunami

More human tragedy while our international muscle is embroiled in war not relief.

Indonesian earthquakes set off local tsunami

Two earthquakes struck off the coast of Java in Indonesia on Monday, causing a tsunami to crash into Java's southern coast. Unconfirmed early reports suggest the wave was 2 metres high and caused fatalities.

Tsunami still pollutes Sri Lankan wells

The findings are disheartening. Nearly 40,000 wells have been destroyed or contaminated. When the sea swept 1.5 kilometres inland it filled the coastal wells with salt water, making them unusable. The wells will not recover quickly because the aquifers th

Tonga Fails to Receive Tsunami Alert

Though a major tsunami never materialized after Thursday's quake, the communication failure raised troubling questions about the effectiveness of such alerts, which have come under global scrutiny since an earthquake-driven tsunami in the Indian Ocean nearly 18 months ago left at least 216,000 dead or missing.

Quake triggers tsunami warning

Concerns about a tsunami in the aftermath of a powerful South Pacific quake eased after the U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning center canceled its warning and an official in New Zealand said ocean-monitoring devices had not detected any signs of a tsunami.

Massive fraud hits tsunami aid

We calculate that 30% to 40% of all the aid funds, Indonesian and international, have been tainted by graft, said Akhiruddin Mahjuddin, an accountant. The betrayal is all the more cruel because it has been committed, in the main, by the Acehnese themselves.

Tsunami Survivors Mark First Anniversary

Ceremonies Saturday marked one year since the Indian Ocean tsunami swept away at least 216,000 lives in one of the worst natural disasters in memory.

Local tsunami warning after undersea quake off PNG

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 jolted an area off the north coast of Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific and could generate localized destructive tsunamis.