Eggheads working on El Capitan, the world's most powerful publicly known supercomputer, have developed a new tsunami forecasting system that could dramatically improve response times in coastal communities.

In the event of a large-scale earthquake along the US Pacific Northwest, residents may have as little as 10 minutes before the waves strike, leaving little time for evacuation, researchers explained in a blog post on Tuesday.

"Conventional tsunami warning systems often rely on seismic and geodetic data to infer earthquake magnitude and location, but typically use simplistic models that fail to capture the complexity of fault ruptures, which can lead to false alarms or dangerously late warnings," the authors explained.

The new forecast model, developed as part of collaboration between

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