USATODAY.com - White House issues tsunami disaster plans: "White House issues tsunami disaster plans
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hoping to protect U.S. shores from being hammered by a tsunami, the White House issued a national plan Friday for increased earthquake and volcano monitoring systems, deep ocean buoys and other high-tech means of alerting oceanside communities.
The tsunami plan was requested by President Bush and Congress after an earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004, caused a massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean. It killed or left missing at least 216,000 people in 11 Indian Ocean countries, and 'demonstrated international vulnerability,' said John Marburger, Bush's top science adviser."
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