Indonesia launches new tsunami warning system

November 11, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesia’s recently-launched tsunami early warning system (InaTEWS) would signal warnings five minutes after a tsunami-potential earthquake occurs, Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said.

“Through intensive development within a short period we were able to produce a system that can detect tsunami in just five minutes after a quake,” BMG chairman Sri Wowo B. Harijono was quoted by Jakarta Post as saying at the official InaTEWS launching in Jakarta on November 11.

InaTEWS is comprehensive early warning system that uses Decision Support System (DSS) technology, an interactive software-based system intended to help decision makers compile useful information from raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to identify and solve problems and make decisions.

InaTEWS is the brainchild of 18 governmental institutions and five donor countries: Germany, Japan, China, the US, and France, according to the newspaper.-