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Title: TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM
Caption: (b) Travel time (each band is 1 hour) for a tsunami generated in Hawai'i. The wave arrives in Los Angeles in about 5 hours. It takes about 12 hours for the waves to reach South America. Locations of 30 DART tsunameter buoys are shown with red dots. At least 14 additional DART tsunameter buoys are planned for the Pacfic and Atlantic Oceans. (NOAA)
Keywords: earthquakes, tsunamis, oceans, warnings, hazard maps