Caribbean at risk of deadly Tsunamis

Geologists said, currently, tsunami warnings come from Alaska or Hawaii. But von Hillebrandt-Andrade said the United States and its partners in the Caribbean are moving toward completing a local warning system based in Puerto Rico by 2014 and funded by the United States.

She disclosed that a Caribbean tsunami information center will be hosted in Barbados.

“By having a warning center in the Caribbean, not only would we be able to research the sources of the tsunamis much better, but we’ll also be able to do a quicker analysis and also have products that are culturally and socially useful for the decision-makers in the countries,” von Hillebrandt-Andrade said. – (CMC)

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