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Is Los Angeles Prepared For A Tsunami?
Earthquakes, Maybe. But Is Los Angeles Prepared For A Tsunami?
A tsunami hazard zone sign along the Playa del Rey district in Los Angeles County. (Photo credit: sfxeric)
When a typhoon is expected to land in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Observatory is prepared with a comprehensive alert system that issues hourly summaries of weather warnings through the news and radio. Citizens are accustomed to checking their smartphones often about high typhoon levels to know what time they can leave work and go home.
But if a tsunami hit Los Angeles, the entire county would have little reaction time and be largely unprepared, even though an alerting system already exists. Less than 1% of the county’s population is currently registered to receive an emergency warning via their mobile devices. (As of Oct. 30, the department has seen a meager 26,711 county residents registered for the Alert L.A. County Mass Notification System, which sends emergency warnings via text message, e-mail and voice message in case of natural disasters.)
The rest of the county’s population would rely on public service announcements, phone calls to landlines or police and firefighters going door-to-door to relay the department’s emergency alerts.
“Obviously this is not that quick,” said Chris Ipsen, public information officer for the city of Los Angeles Emergency Department. “A quick system would be a warning system, but we’re not going to just sit there and not do anything. We work with what we have.
Sounds like they better get their act together.Living by the sea can be beautiful ,it has it's pluses like swimming and fishing but it also has it's drawbacks,hurricanes and tsunamis.
Can it be redirected to Washington,D.C.? They could really use a flush.
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