There was an earthquake of about 6.5 today, near Japan. The Tsunami warning center here in the US did not issue a warning, but according to the ABC news or maybe CBS the Japanese government issued one. This implies that getting email from a single central warning center for the entire Pacific does NOT exist. There are several problems here, first that the warnings that I have gotten are too big to be received by a cell or Iridium sat phone. But worst of all, there does not appear to be any single place to subscribe to warnings that cover any major part of an ocean basin. If this last is true, then it is obvious that the system as presently constituted is seriously flawed. Now it may be that since the quake was well below 7.0, the threshold considered the level at which a Tsunami of significance can be generated, that there would not be a warning issued by the central notification center. On the other hand, if Tsunami's are to be dealt with by information dissemination, this does not quite look like it. I would not bet everything I had on a centralized alert, just yet. Mike Capt. Mike Maurice Tualatin(Portland), Oregon