globeandmail.com: Tsunami monitors offer nine-minute warning: "VICTORIA -- Federal government scientists are testing new GPS monitors on the west coast of Vancouver Island that could give British Columbians nine crucial extra minutes of warning in the event of a major earthquake.
The group of Sidney Pacific Geoscience Centre scientists hopes that the new approach to tsunami detection, which integrates GPS technology into existing seismic networks and tide-gauge monitors, could eventually encompass the entire west coast of North America.
The goal is to determine the location, type and severity of seismic activity, with each sensor instantly feeding its data over a wireless connection into a central computer. That could cut the current lag time by 60 per cent - or nine minutes."
Friday, May 04, 2007
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