The US Congress is poised to approve a measure that would bolster tsunami warning efforts in Hawaii, including beefing up technology and expanding research into historic mega-quakes that caused giant tidal waves to leave their marks on coastal areas centuries ago, reports Civil Beat.
According to the article, the measure would put in place programs needed to take tsunami warning efforts past simply identifying tsunami impact areas and drawing up of evacuation zones and response plans. That includes more education and training for coastal communities as well as research into tsunami threats posed by earthquakes in the Aleutian Islands and enhancing early-warning systems by upgrading tsunami buoys and even deploying sensors on trans-Pacific undersea cables deep on the ocean floor.