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Appendix C: Essential Hazard Monitoring Networks
Appendix C: Essential Hazard Monitoring Networks
Pages 241-244
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A recent National Research Council review of the multiagency National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program noted that many of the review's other recommendations are critically dependent on data generated by ANSS (NRC, 2011a)
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Tsunami Program2 with its mission to provide a 24-hour detection and warning system. The NOAA National Weather Service operates two tsunami warning centers that continuously monitor seismological data provided by the USGS from domestic and international seismic stations to evaluate earthquakes that have the potential to generate tsunamis.
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A 2007 report from the National Research Council recommended expanding the USGS monitoring activities on rivers and called for a plan for a 21st-century river monitoring system for data collection, transmission, and dissemination (NRC, 2007)
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2007. Review of the United States Geological Survey Volcano Hazards Program.
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