I guess we're lucky this wasn't a tsunami right?
Imagine that?
White House proposes to cut tsunami warning system
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By
Paul Rogers |
progers@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: February 27, 2012 at 11:56 a.m. | UPDATED: August 13, 2016 at 6:31 a.m.
Less than a year after surging waves from a Japanese earthquake battered the California coast, causing $58 million in damage and wrecking the Santa Cruz and Crescent City harbors, the Obama administration is moving to reduce funding for the nation’s tsunami warning and preparedness programs.
The White House’s proposed 2013 budget would cut $4.6 million from NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for tsunami programs that were expanded after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed at least 230,000 people.
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Killed 230,000 people.