UN Ready for Indian Ocean Tsunami Alert System by 2006
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The United Nations should be ready to launch a tsunami warning system for the Indian Ocean by June 2006 with the rest of the world to follow a year later, the official in charge of the program said on Wednesday.
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International efforts to aid desperate victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster are picking up pace, said UN officials, who dismissed as unfair suggestions that the response had been slow.
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India's tsunami warning system will be operational in two to three years' time, a government minister says.
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The first of a planned network of tsunami early warning buoys is being installed in the Indian Ocean.
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American and UN leaders have announced plans to visit the regions affected by the Indian Ocean disaster a week ago.
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The UN secretary general asks world leaders to make an unprecedented response to the Indian Ocean disaster.
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With multiple nations putting forward projects for a tsunami-warning system, the United Nations said Wednesday it should set up the system and extend it globally, but the United States voiced doubts about the U.N. ability to run such a program.
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A global tsunami warning system to get critical information to people in the path of the potentially deadly waves was approved on Wednesday as a top priority for the world's climate experts.
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Officials hope they can have the south Indian fleet back from the tsunami in six months, writes Daniel Lak.
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The Bush administration unveiled a &#36;37.5 million plan Friday to erect a tsunami warning system designed to protect both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts by mid-2007.
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The tsunami that crashed into coastlines across southern Asia is likely to present the United Nations with its biggest and costliest relief effort, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator said on Monday.
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In the wake of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis last week, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Conrad Lautenbacher has renewed his call for a Global Ocean Observing System that could patch together many governmentsâ stovepiped sensors.
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Researchers are hoping to develop a network of ocean-floor and mobile sensors that would help detect tsunamis in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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Global efforts to assist victims  of the Indian Ocean tsunami are zeroing in on isolated parts of  Sumatra where hundreds of thousands of people may still need  emergency aid, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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Caribbean and Atlantic coastlines &#151; not just the Indian Ocean's tsunami-ravaged shores &#151; would benefit from a tsunami warning system like the one in the Pacific, says the chief of the U.S. weather research agency.
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To help create warning systems to detect catastrophic events such as the tsunamis in south Asia, scientific research needs adequate support.
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KOBE, Japan  - As the Asian tsunami focuses world  attention on natural disasters, experts on Wednesday called for  a global early warning system for all such catastrophes as soon  as possible.