On February eleventh, GITEWS reported a seven point three earthquake in Indonesia's Talaud Islands near Sulawesi.

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But no tsunami followed. GITEWS is a joint project of Indonesia and the German government.

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The new system is called the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System, or GITEWS.

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