Published on Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 10:35 | Source : reuters
Updated at Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 17:24
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Streamlined Indian Ocean tsunami alert key
Indian Ocean nations must shed national pride and ensure a planned regional tsunami warning system is simple enough to work, a top official from the United Nations' science arm said on Tuesday, reports Reuters.
Indian Ocean nations must shed national pride and ensure a planned regional tsunami warning system is simple enough to work, a top official from the United Nations' science arm said on Tuesday, reports Reuters.
When the project first started in the wake of the Dec 26,2004 tsunami that killed around 230,000 people, many Indian Ocean countries wanted to host a regional alert centre, UNESCO assistant director general Patricio Bernal said.
"Everybody has their expectations that they would be ableto be the centre. I think they are wrong," Bernal said on the sidelines of a meeting aimed at protecting Indian Ocean nations from the threat of tsunami.
"It will be complicating the protocols of transmission. If you have, say, eight centres, it will be self defeating. It will never work," he said, adding the Indian Ocean needed only one or two hubs to link up to national earthquake and tsunami centres.
After 18 months of work, government weather agencies in almost all members of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System have been connected.
"It will be complicating the protocols of transmission. If you have, say, eight centres, it will be self defeating. It will never work," he said, adding the Indian Ocean needed only one or two hubs to link up to national earthquake and tsunami centres.
