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Indonesia Concerned About Cost Of Tsunami Warning System
Jakarta (SPX) Mar 21, 2005 An Indonesian official has questioned whether the government can afford to operate and maintain the planned Indian Ocean Tsunami Early Warning System (TEWS), The Jakarta Post reported last Saturday. The director of the Geophysics Data and Information Center at the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG), Prih Hajardi, said the operation and maintenance costs could be as high as $US300,000 dollars per month for each deep-sea tsunami assessment and reporting (DART) system. "The operational and maintenance costs will be quite high because we need to check and clean the system on a weekly and monthly basis. Regular maintenance is important because the regional and national transmission of tsunami monitoring requires satellites," he was quoted as saying. Prih said that in the Indian Ocean alone, at least 10 DART buoys were necessary for accurate and fast warnings. The Indian Ocean tsunami on Dec. 26 that killed hundreds of thousands of people led to calls for setting up a tsunami early warning system in the region. Indonesia's Aceh province was the hardest hit by the tsunami. Germany earlier last week agreed to provide 45 million euros (85.85 million dollars) worth of equipment for the development of aTEWS in Indonesia for monitoring, assessments and the online and real-time transmission of data through a satellite system. The TEWS components consist of 10 global positioning system (GPS)-based buoys, 25 seismographs, 10 GPS stations, 10 GPS tide gauges and 20 ocean bottom pressure sensors for the DART system. The TEWS components will likely be located around North Sumatra,along the south-coast of East Nusa Tenggara, around the Banda Sea in Maluku, and in North and Central Sulawesi, according to Prih. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Tectonic Science and News
Ash Continuing To Spew From Vanuatu Volcano
Sydney (AFP) Dec 12, 2005Thousands of tonnes of ash are continuing to spew from a volcano in Vanuatu, but officials said Monday the activity on the South Pacific nation was not likely to result in a major deadly eruption. |
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