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How are the pacific tsunami warning system and other systems like it related to earthquakes

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Earthquake and tsunami warning systems both monitor the same thing: seismic waves. Seismic data takes the Earth's pulse directly, so when the earth shakes, we get immediate feedback. If all goes well, we have enough time to run.

Step-by-step explanation:

An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

A tsunami or tidal wave is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

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