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June 17th, 2010
EU Creates Tsunami Early Warning System

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EU-funded researchers have helped develop an early warning system that will protect vulnerable communities from tsunamis and avoid future terrible losses of life such as that suffered in Indonesia and Sri Lanka in December 2004, when an estimated 230 000 people were killed. EU support for the research came from the DEWS (‘Distant early warning system’) project, which received just over EUR 4 million from the ‘Information society technologies’ (IST) Thematic area of the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) to develop an advanced interoperable tsunami early warning system for strong early warning capacities. Read More

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