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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.
10 kwi 2023 · The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii was established following a 1946 tsunami that struck Hawaii, killing more than 150 people and causing over $300 million in damage (2017 dollars). The PTWC provides tsunami messages for the Hawaiian Islands, the U.S. Pacific and Caribbean territories, and the British Virgin Islands.
19 kwi 2016 · NOAA’s Tsunami Warning Centers use tsunami forecast models combined with data from the seismic and sea-level networks to continuously refine their messages with more accurate, targeted, and detailed information.
Current research improves measurement technology, increases the speed and accuracy of operational forecast models, and investigates methods to asses and predict tsunami impact on coastal communities and infrastructure.
This explosive eruption produced a tsunami that affected the entire Pacific Ocean, and atmospheric pressure waves that circled Earth several times causing minor tsunamis visible on tide gauges (marigrams) in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and even the Mediterranean Sea.
The National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) is one of two tsunami warning centers in the United States, covering all coastal regions of the United States and Canada, except Hawaii, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Until 2013, it was known as the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.
