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The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre (JATWC) utilises national capacity where available to provide notification and verification of earthquakes that may generate tsunamis.
- The Warning Centre
Based in Melbourne and Canberra, it has been established so...
- The Warning Centre
Based in Melbourne and Canberra, it has been established so that Australia has an independent capability to detect, monitor, verify and warn the community of the existence of tsunamis in our region and possible threats to Australian coastal locations and offshore territories.
18 cze 2024 · The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre (JATWC) provides 24 hour tsunami monitoring, assessment and warnings. It examines real-time data from Australian and international seismic stations and, in the event of an oceanic earthquake, determines the likelihood of a tsunami occurring.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), located on Ford Island, Hawaii, is one of two tsunami warning centers in the United States, covering Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea.
Australia also provides observations from its seismic and sea-level monitoring networks in the Southwest Pacific to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) in Hawaii to support its warning service for the Pacific Ocean.
Australia. 8,000 km of fault lines lying to the north and east of the country put Australia at high risk. The Australian Tsunami Warning System is a collaboration between the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Department of Home Affairs.. GA operates a network of seismic stations nationally and accesses data from international monitoring networks.
The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre, jointly operated 24 hours a day by the Bureau of Meteorology and Geoscience Australia detects, monitors, verifies and warns of any tsunami threat to the coastline of Australia and its offshore territories.
