“There are new allegations that the staff at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center was told to keep quiet about an outage of a key data system that had been down for days.
Jeff Ruch is with the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Alleged communication obtained by the group, said to be from NOAA officials to PTWC staff, said they should “avoid discussing the ongoing outages on social media.” That communication came out on March 11, the anniversary of the deadly 2011 Japan tsunami.”
