Research Discover New Ways to Detect Tsunamis

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BERLIN - Recently researchers revealed that they succeed to find a new way to prove quickly and precisely the early warning system from the tsunami. A team of German researchers revealed that the satellite-based GPS is able to offer detailed information just in matter of minutes.

The researchers believe that this technology has been experiencing much enhancement, since the tsunami destroyed most of Japan in 2011. The study about this GPS has been published in Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Sciences.

This tsunami early warning system uses data seismology, to ensure wave energy generated from the movement as well as shifting plates of the earth.

According to the researchers, the GPS sensor which is placed at the shoreline is able to give an accurate analysis about the underwater earthquake that could potentially shift the ground surface. "In a case called subduction earthquake, a slab of land that one will be under the other plate," said Principal Investigator, Dr. Andreas Hoechner.

The emergence of this system is based on the 2011 tsunami that occurred in Japan, where the people there a little late getting accurate information about the underwater earthquake.

"Having technology that is able to accurately predict the presence of a tsunami, is certainly a very great progress. Will but, the information submitted on the citizens is also an important thing, therefore, information delivery infrastructure also must be focus the countries that have the potential experiencing the tsunami," added Hoechner.