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The International Tsunami Information Center was established in 1965 by the IOC (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). ITIC maintains and develops relationships with scientific research and academic organizations, civil defense agencies, and the general public in order to carry out its mission to mitigate the hazards associated with tsunamis by improving tsunami preparedness for all Pacific Ocean nations.
1. Monitors international tsunami warning activities in the Pacific.
2. Assists Member States in establishing national warning systems, and makes information available on current technologies for tsunami warning systems.
3. Maintains a library of materials to promulgate knowledge about tsunamis in general and for use by the scientific community.
4. Disseminates information including educational materials and research reports.
5. Publishes a newsletter for all parties interested in the activities of ITIC and other organizations involved in tsunami warning or tsunami hazard reduction.
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NOAA participates in the Tsunami Warning System, operating two Tsunami Warning Centers. The Alaska/West Coast Tsunami Warning Center (ATWC) in Palmer, Alaska, serves as the regional Tsunami Warning Center for Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, serves as the regional Tsunami Warning Center for Hawaii and as a national/international warning center for tsunamis that pose a Pacific-wide threat.
NOAA scientists acted quickly when a warning was issued about the powerful undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean that triggered a devastating tsunami. The NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued an information bulletin at 8:14 p.m. EST Saturday, indicating that a magnitude 8.0 earthquake had occurred off the west coast of Northern Sumatra.
Within a few hours of learning of the tsunamis that killed thousands in Indonesia Saturday night, Vasily Titov, associate director of the Tsunami Inundation Mapping Efforts, or TIME, at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Wash., and his counterpart in Japan had created preliminary model estimates of the event.
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For the Russia, YSTWC has responsibility as National Tsunami Warning Center to provide tsunami warning service for any tsunami impacting Russia national interests. YSTWC predicts the tsunami arrival times, coastal impact if possible, and must provide timely and effective information and warnings to all national interests to minimize the hazards to human life and safety.
YSTWC can offer 4 online catalogues:
(1) Catalogue of Warnings and Tsunami for Pacific Region starting with 1998;
(2) Earthquake data catalogue for the events with magnitude greater or equal 7.0 in Kuril-Kamchatka trench, Okhotskoye and Japan seas;
(3) Data catalogue for near source tsunami observed in Kurily isls and Sakhalin isl;
(4) Tsunami data catalogue for the events resulting due to distant quakes.
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