U.S. tsunami alert system streamlined

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(AP Photo/ Al Grillo) :: Bruce Turner, a geophysicist and assistant director of the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center, talks on Friday Dec. 23, 2005, about the tsunami that hit South-East Asia last year.

By Associated Press
JEANNETTE J. LEE
Updated: 01/05/06

PALMER, Alaska

The nation's two tsunami warning centers will now have additional resources and round the clock staffing and surveillance to help warn of a tsunami threat to the U.S."