India prepares to install Tsunami Warning System

The Indian government has decided to install 'Sea Floor Pressure Recording
System', an equipment, which can send warnings about a tsunami. It is a
warning generation information systems that is likely to be put in the Indian
Ocean very soon.

The new system would be linked to the existing devices called data buoys,
which records sea surface parameters. Any disturbance in the pressure of water
would be recorded and sent to satellites. The pressure recording system, which
will have to be imported from the US, would also strengthen the country's
cyclone warning system, considering the fact that 25% of the world's cyclones
are recorded in the Bay of Bengal. "The international warning system in the
Pacific constantly monitors for signs that are generated by an underwater
earthquake," said Government of India Department of Ocean Development Joint
Secretary, Dr Suraj Prakash Seth.

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