Warnings for the system are presently issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre based in Hawaii and the Japanese North-West Pacific Tsunami Advisory Centre based in Tokyo.
There have been some unexpected responses, for instance markedly different phytoplankton communities and total biomass resulted from two iron addition experiments conducted a year apart at the same site in the north west Pacific Ocean.
And some of that has had an effect in the far West and Pacific.
The Pacific West and the north-east are all firmly Democratic already: the Great Plains firmly Republican.
The bay is like a giant bowl that drains west to the Pacific Ocean twice a day.
This pipeline is a new addition to the southern portion of the massive West Siberia-Pacific Coast pipeline system.
Dean Perry of West LB Securities Pacific in Tokyo thinks Orix is plenty strong financially to continue making strategic acquisitions and remain competitive.
So, without any guidance from west London or Pacific Quay, it's up to the SNP to figure out how it carves Scotland out of the BBC without losing the elements that viewers and listeners value.
Not to mention that, from downtown LA, one is only about 8 miles from Hollywood, 10 miles from Beverly Hills, and 15 miles due West to the Pacific Ocean and its assortment of beaches and tourist traps in Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, and the like.
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It took me a while (all of twelve hours) to realize what it was: for so much of my life, I have been physically oriented to think of the ocean as that thing to the East (the Atlantic) or the West (the Pacific) of me.
This jagged sentinel sliced the nation's watersheds into east and west, the Atlantic and the Pacific and out west, water was gold, and where the water went, people followed.
Polynesians are descended from southeast Asians, and moved across the Pacific from west to east, eventually reaching remote islands such as Easter and Hawaii.
The Galapagos -- 19 islands that lie 600 miles west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean -- are home to species of animals found nowhere else on Earth.
This is a formidable lobby in the Pacific north-west, which has been defined to a remarkable degree by 16 huge dams that blockade the Columbia river and its principal tributary, the Snake.
Logging has increased by 60% in the state since the 1980s, when the timber industry moved its operations over from the Pacific north-west in order to avoid continual warfare over old-growth forests and spotted owls.
Enter through a concrete lobby in an anonymous building fronted by corrugated sheeting a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean in West L.A. and suddenly you're in a hangar-esque space where some 200 acolytes toil at desks and tables constructed from the same cheap red plywood used for packing cases.
It has long been a hub for goods moving from east to west, thanks to the Union Pacific Railroad.
When Martin brought South Pacific to London's West End, Hagman was in the chorus.
The rest are scattered across the Midwest (fifty-eight), the mid-Atlantic (twenty-five), the mountain West (eighteen), and the Pacific (twenty-one).
On Thursday, Tropical Storm Alma, the first one of the year in the eastern Pacific, formed near the west coast of Central America, according to the National Weather Service.
He has already helped to track down a more recent, smaller impact (a mere 2.15m years ago, and involving an object somewhere between one and four kilometres across) to another part of the Pacific ocean, south-west of Chile.
Nasa says its six-tonne UARS satellite plunged to Earth over the Pacific Ocean, off the US west coast.
An isolated archipelago, the Galapagos are set in the Pacific Ocean more than 500 miles west of Ecuador .
From there the crew plotted a course west, riding the Humboldt Current across the Pacific -- it would be more than three months before they saw land again.
He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the West Coast Affiliate of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Economist Fort likens the potential expansion of Major League Baseball to the Asia-Pacific market to its move to the West Coast in the 1950s.
More than 1, 000 ex-servicemen say their lives were destroyed after the UK carried out a series of nuclear weapons tests in mainland Australia, the Montebello islands off the west Australian coast and on Christmas Island, in the Pacific, between 1952 and 1958.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Convention, Chinese National Academy of Arts (China National Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage), International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the Auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP), Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Hangzhou Municipal Government are planning to co-organize the West Lake Expo on Traditional Craftsmanship in the Asia-Pacific Region from 17 to 21 October 2013 in Hangzhou, China.
It is believed that they are pushing west because they want to open a corridor to a major Pacific port, such as Manzanillo, just south of Guadalajara.
Not only is it farther north than you might expect to find a desert (it's at approximately the same latitude as Medford, 220 miles to the west), but it's also more representative of the Pacific Northwest's climate and ecology than is the fogbound coast.
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