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Alarm sounded over tsunami alert cuts/ USA need to save some Peanuts!
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Alarm sounded over tsunami alert cuts
Less than a year after surging waves from a Japanese earthquake battered the California coast, causing $58 million in damage and wrecking the Santa Cruz and Crescent City harbors, the Obama administration is moving to reduce funding for the nation's tsunami warning and preparedness programs.
The White House's proposed 2013 budget would cut $4.6 million from NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for tsunami programs that were expanded following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed at least 230,000 people.
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"This is like a homeowner trying to economize by disconnecting the smoke detector," said Jeff Ruch, president of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit group that has raised the issue.
The buoy program, first created in 1996, is of particular note.
Congress expanded it after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami from six buoys to 39. The buoys, which cost about $400,000 each, are tethered to the ocean floor. They measure water pressure changes and sea floor movement, and send instant details about tsunamis to satellites. The data is used by NOAA's tsunami warning centers in Honolulu and Alaska to fine tune tsunami alerts.
On March 11, following the a 9.0-magnitude earthquake off Japan, the buoys helped provide precise predictions — to the centimeter — of the size of the waves, along with direction and arrival time on the West Coast. Because of the data, areas were evacuated, including the Santa Cruz waterfront.
Please read the whole Article and tell the People who are Responsible to "think", this is not "saving Money"
this is "Risking your Lives"!
[link to www.greatfallstribune.com]
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