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Witnesses Say U.S. Vulnerable to Major Tsunami:

Experts Testify Before the House Committee on Science

January 26, 2005

 

Summaries of the testimony from Dr. Charles "Chip" Groat, Director US

Geological Survey, General David L. Johnson (ret.), Director of NOAA's

National Weather Service, Dr. John Orcutt, President of the American

Geophysical Union, Dr. Arthur Lerner-Lam, Director of the Columbia Center

for Hazards and Risk Research, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and Jay Wilson, Coordinator of Earthquake and Tsunami Programs, Oregon Emergency Management, are available at:

 

http://www.house.gov/science/press/109/109-5.htm

 

 

House Committee on Science Hearings:

http://www.house.gov/science/welcome.htm

 

U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing on The Tsunami Preparedness Act of 2005:

http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=1361

 

U.S. Announces Plan for an Improved Tsunami Detection
and Warning System:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2369.htm

 
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