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and Overview of the Nation's Tsunami Preparedness." Tsunami
Warning and Preparedness: An Assessment of the U.S. Tsunami
Program and the Nation's Preparedness Efforts. Washington, DC:
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Warning and Preparedness: An Assessment of the U.S. Tsunami
Program Global observing systems, including the Global Earth
Observing System of Systems Priority areas of targeted research
and development in the United States to improve performance and
guide modernization efforts In its assessment, the committee
will consider measures in the tsunami detection, forecast, and
warning program implemented and planned by NOAA under the
Tsunami Warning and Education Act (P.L. 109-424). In the second
part, the committee will provide a ge