Agency to warn other countries in the tsunami - Japan
Japan Meteorological Agency will expand the geographic scope of its observations and provide tsunami forecasts for other nations in Asia since March, said Tuesday the agency sources. AGENCIES The system will be able to issue tsunami alerts include information such as height of a tsunami and its arrival time 20 minutes after a strong earthquake. The accuracy of the agency warnings is considered a rival. There will be an essential tool for disaster prevention in Indonesia and other countries in danger of being beaten by the tsunami.The quantitative prediction of the tsunami, the agency has introduced in 1999, currently expected tsunami travel if strong earthquakes strike, based on about 100,000 models of earthquakes centered in coastal waters. When an earthquake occurs, the
system selects the model closer to real earthquake in about three minutes issues a tsunami warning based on the model chosen.calculate tsunami in each case. The Agency aims to issue a tsunami prediction occurs 10-20 minutes after a strong earthquake, the sources said. The system is capable of more than 1,000 points on the coast between the Kamchatka Peninsula and offer the Solomon Islands, but the agency select several points of observation for each country on the basis of their applications. MORE .. yomiuri.co.