"We are very leery about the SP, " said Robert De Cardenas, distributed systems and network coordinator for the State of Florida Supreme Court.

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"We were able to tie it down to procedures that either were not in place or had not been fully implemented at BP in their management system, " said Allison Iversen, a coordinator at Alaska's Petroleum Systems Integrity Office.

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Other universities set up similar systems as well, said Melissa Lucchesi, an outreach education coordinator with Security On Campus Inc.

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Sanny Jegillos, program coordinator for the UNDP's regional center in Bangkok, rates the Indian Ocean early tsunami warning systems as superior to those of the Pacific in terms of earthquake monitoring and detection.

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