Get tsunami warning by click of a mouse

It will take a couple of years for India’s own tsunami warning system to become operational but here’s how anyone can get near-rea...

It will take a couple of years for India’s own tsunami warning system to become operational but here’s how anyone can get near-real-time warnings about possible tsunamis, via e-mail, for free.

In a move that gives a boost to people power, the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission’s (IOC) tsunami warning system in the Pacific, ITSU, has set up a ‘public tsunami warning listserve’ so that anyone, who wish to, can receive by e-mail tsunami warning centre information messages.

This free e-mail warning service went into operation on December 31, 2004, and broadcast messages posted by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center for the January 1, earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale, that occurred in the region. The response time of these warnings can be gauged from the fact that the warning centres posted these messages about 15 minutes after the earthquake occurred.

Story continues below this ad

To subscribe to this free e-mail warning, you need to visit http://ioc.unesco.org/itsu/contents.php and click on the ‘Tsunami Warnings’ link and then enter your e-mail address to begin receiving messages.

According to Dr Laura S.L. Kong, director of the UNESCO/IOC International Tsunami Information Centre in Honolulu, ‘‘The IOC cannot guarantee that this service will be operational 100 per cent of the time and that there will be no delays in the receipt of the messages by subscribers. Official warning messages are assured of delivery only to the ITSU national contacts.’’

The warnings issued via e-mail will be the same warnings issued to the 26 countries that are part of the Pacific basin tsunami warning network.

Air India safety violations, Air India show cause notices, Air India Boeing 787 crash, Air India London Gatwick crash, DGCA Air India inspections,

‘Unfortunate’: SC slams reports suggesting ‘pilot error’ led to Air India crash

Legal4 hr ago

The Supreme Court Monday issued notice on a plea seeking an independent and expeditious investigation into the June 12, 2025, crash of an Air India Boeing Dreamliner in Ahmedabad, which killed 260 people. The bench also termed as “unfortunate” media reports which indicated that “pilot error” was to blame for the crash, purportedly quoting some preliminary findings by the AAIB.

View all shorts

Live Blog