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Rare Tsunami Spurs Effort for Tidal Warning System

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An earthquake expert at the UW-Madison says he was surprised to learn that part of the world didn’t have a tidal warning system. Such a system could have saved thousands of lives which were lost when an earthquake generated gigantic waves in Southern Asia. Shamane Mills reports…

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