Tsunami Early Warning System Successfully Tested In Mumbai

A newly-installed tsunami early warning system siren was successfully tested after the 11 years tsunami which had hit the Indian Ocean countries in 2004.

Test Location : Mumbai by Captain KLV Prabhakaran for the Regional Meteorological Command.

This system was installed at the Meteorology Office of Western Naval Command by Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Earth & Sciences (MoES), Government of India.

Tsunami Early Warning System :

• The siren and a digital electronic board is part of a system for issuing early warning in case of a tsunami threat in the Indian Ocean region.
• The siren has a radical range of three kilometres in all directions and will have continuous hoot for one minute.
• In case of a threat, seven tsunami buoys with sensors will record the height and speed of waves and will alert the monitoring centre in Hyderabad.