Is there a tsunami warning system for the Caribbean Sea?
A Caribbean wide tsunami warning system has been planned to be set up by 2010 by member nations representatives who met in Panama City in March 2008. Panama’s last major tsunami killed 4,500 people in 1882. Other warning systems: International warning systems (IWS) [edit] Pacific Ocean Tsunami warnings for most of the Pacific Ocean are issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), operated by the United States’s NOAA in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. NOAA’s West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WC/ATWC) in Palmer, Alaska issues warnings for the west coast of North America, including Alaska, Canada, and the western coterminous United States. PTWC was established in 1949, following the 1946 Aleutian Island earthquake and a tsunami that resulted in 165 casualties on Hawaii and in Alaska; WC/ATWC was founded in 1967. International coordination is achieved through the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific, established by the Intergovernmental Oceanogr
