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November 5 is United Nations Tsunami Awareness Day. Tsunami is a Japanese word for a long, destructive ocean wave caused by an undersea earthquake. The goal of the observance is to learn from disasters of the past and to prepare for the future. Two t

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November 5 is United Nations Tsunami Awareness Day. Tsunami is a Japanese word for a long, destructive ocean wave caused by an undersea earthquake. The goal of the observance is to learn from disasters of the past and to prepare for the future. Two t

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Indonesian officials say an early warning system failed to alert locals before a tsunami wiped out about ten villages on the tiny Mentawai Islands. More than 270 people have been killed in the three-metre tsunami with another 400 still missing. Techn

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New Technology Provides Early Warning for Heart Attacks

Researchers say they have developed technology that could predict heart attacks years before they happen. The researchers report using mathematical algorithms to examine computed tomography, or CT, images of a patients heart. A CT scan uses X-rays an

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These hardworking houseplants can sweeten every breath you take . Put Your Plants to Work In the early 1980s, when NASA researchers were looking for ways to purify the air inside the space pods of the future , they didn ' t just look to engineer a pr

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By Anthony Stokes Washington, D.C. 14 July 2006 watch earthquake report U.S. geological experts are working to develop a computer model that can better detect an earthquake and warn people in advance. VOA's Anthony Stokes looks at how the early warn

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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at two forty-six p.m. local time on March eleventh. Japans Meteorological Agency released its first tsunami warnings just three minutes la

美国科学60秒 SSS 2015-04-15

Early warning systems can be the difference between life and death in earthquake-prone regions. But they are expensive. The US, Mexico and Japan have such systems. That leaves large swats of central and South America, Asia and the Caribbean unprotect

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 05 August 2006 The world's first earthquake early warning system has begun operating in Japan. The government-developed system takes advantage of the precious seconds between the first indication of a powerful tremor and the ar

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China is frequently hit by earthquake. Now it's planning to build a national earthquake monitoring and warning system within five years to reduce casualties and economic losses. An official from the administration said while the system would not be a

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The US Government is testing an early warning system for earthquakes, which could buy vital seconds of time in advance of a major incident. For years the US has lagged behind Japan in quake detection technology and it is hoped that this latest system

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