NOAA’s DART RIGHT ON TSUNAMI TARGET
Dec. 8, 2003 — NOAA’s DART system hit the bull’s-eye Nov. 17 when it detected a small tsunami generated by an earthquake near Adak, Alaska. DART is the Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis. “This was the first time since it went operational in October that we had a chance to put it through its paces and it worked as planned,” said Eddie N. Bernard, director of the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Wash., where the warning system was developed, designed and built. “This is the first time we were able to capture tsunami data in real-time in an operational mode.”
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NOAA’s DART RIGHT ON TSUNAMI TARGET
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