Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty sensors can warn of tsunami

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | A-bomb system can warn of tsunami: “Monitoring stations set up to detect atomic explosions could help predict the path of a tsunami, research shows.

Californian scientists have analysed sound waves produced in the Indian Ocean by last December’s Asian tsunami.

Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the team says the tsunami produced a ‘unique’ signal.

This indicates, they say, that stations set up to implement the A-bomb test ban treaty could be involved in the new Indian Ocean tsunami warning system.”

There are also much more sensitive sensor networks set up for other military purposes such as submarine detection.

The science in the article seems a little bit fuzzy … they are relying on the unique signature observed with the Dec. 26 tsunami, but two immediate concerns come to mind: 1) the Dec. 26 tsunami was a very large event and 2) the tectonic event that triggered the tsunami had a very distinctive shape — a long thin displacement of water. A very different shaped displacement of water could also cause a very serious tsunami — would it generate the same signature?

Related posts:

• [Proliferated] Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty sensors can warn of tsunami
• Threat inflation on sea level rise
• Test from Word 2007
• Test from GeoPress plugin
• Iranian nuclear test March 20?