Warning System For Asian Tsunamis Ready
Josephine Roque - All Headline News Staff Writer New York, NY (AHN) - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announces that the tsunami warning system spanning the Indian Ocean region is now "up and running." The whole region will now be equipped to receive and dispense possible incoming tsunamis. The system comes 18 months after the horrific tsunami of December 2004 that saw more than 200,000 people perish. The Pacific region has had a system for 40 years and others are planned for the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean, according to the BBC. Koichiro Matsuura, director-general of the UN's scientific and cultural organization, told the BBC that the nations involved should be "justly proud of having done all this and much more." The warning system will consist of 26 national tsunami information centers receiving data from 25 new seismographic stations. Three deep-ocean sensors are in place to detect and report tsunamis. "The open and free exchange of data and the full interoperability of national systems is absolutely crucial for success," Matsuura told the BBC.
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