According to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, NOAA canceled a $300,000 contract with the AEC. This will impact accuracy and timeliness of alerts.
WASHINGTON — Funding has been canceled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is expected to impact real-time tsunami alerts.
According to experts, a $300,000 contract was cancelled by NOAA. Those funds were intended to be for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’s Alaska Earthquake Center.
According to NOAA, this cut is not entirely new.
R&I ~ MJM
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