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Japan’s New Undersea Earthquake Detection System Will Improve Tsunami Prediction


Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the massive Cascadia megathrust fault

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