GPS Could Speed Tsunami Warning

wwood_98 writes to tell us that Wired is running a story about how GPS could serve more than its traditional role. From the article: "International organizations like the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, or PTWC, in Hawaii currently depend on coastal seismic stations to record deep-sea earthquakes that could cause giant waves. But according to Jeff Freymueller, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, data from GPS receivers could provide quicker, more accurate estimates of the magnitude of a tsunami-causing quake, buying time for evacuation. Freymueller presented his findings at this week's American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco."

Comments

GPS buys you a head start!

[mister_llah]

Excellent, if you live in a coastal city, you'll get to know that you have 20 minutes left to live...

Re:GPS buys you a head start!

[martinX]

No, you have 20 minutes to:

• get dressed (pants at least),
• find the keys,
• grab your wallet,
• look for your cell phone,
• turn off the TV,
• grab the backups you always make,
• where is that cell phone?,
• select a playlist for your iPod,
• grab some cold brewskies
• where is that damned cellphone???,
• don't forget the digital camera

THEN you can drive. If you're not busy blogging the event, telling the other blogophiles you'll be AFK for a while.

Might work for a little while

[commodoresloat]

Until the tsunamis get ahold of these.