Crescent City Concerns . . .

Tsunami warning system
Crescent City, Calif.,where 11 died in a tsunami in 1964, was hit last week by a wavecaused by a quake off the Russian coast. This time no one died andthere was little damage when a surge estimated at about 5 feet flowedinto the harbor. The earthquake was monitored by the Deep OceanAssessment and Report of Tsunamis, or DART, a system of sensors andbuoys that monitors earthquake and tsunami activity. An alert wasissued last week, but it was canceled more than five hours before thetsunami struck. DART is part of the U.S. contribution to the GlobalEarth Observation System of Systems, designed to give early warning oftsunamis in the Pacific and Caribbean basins. There are 15 suchmonitoring stations operating, with 24 more to be online by mid-2007. >> "...pray for the protection" of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.