tsunami

UN-backed tsunami early warning system set to become operation in Indian Ocean

Eighteen months after the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in a dozen countries, a United Nations-backed early warning system, which experts say could have saved scores of thousands of lives had it existed at the time, is on schedule to become operational for the entire region by the end of July.

Tsunami early warning system moves ahead at UN workshop

More than 130 experts from over 20 countries opened a United Nations-sponsored workshop in Bangkok to push ahead with a tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean that could save scores of thousands of lives in a reoccurrence of the catastrophe which killed more than 200,000 people in a dozen countries in 2004.