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The U.S. Tsunami Warning System Is Crumbling
Funding and staffing cuts are shuttering the monitoring stations that sustain this life-saving early warning system.
Can't wait for the next one to hit and no one is ready. Leopards gotta eat.Nearly 80 years later, this life-saving network of seismic and sea-level monitoring stations is crumbling. Overseen by NOAA, the stations rely on federal funding that the Trump administration slashed this year. As a result, nine seismic stations operated by the Alaska Earthquake Center will shut down in mid-November, Alaska’s News Source reports.