Tsunami Buoys

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[Photo: The Jakarta Post - ADVANCE NOTICE: A technician checks the worthiness of a tsunami warning buoy called DART (Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) aboard a survey ship in Tanjung Priok harbor in Jakarta on Thursday. The buoy, along with four others, will be dropped in waters off western Sumatra to monitor climatic and oceanographic conditions as well as tsunami. The buoy was jointly designed by the Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) and the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (JP/J. Adiguna)]

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New anti-tsunami system opens

Washington (USInfo) A second tsunami-detection system for the Indian Ocean has been launched from Jakarta, to join the $1 billion US recovery, restoration and technical contribution to the region.

The new system was hastily designed and is being installed as a result of the 9.1-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated the area in 2004 which took more than 240,000 lives.

The first device, called a deep-ocean assessment and reporting of tsunami (DART) system, launched from Phuket in December 2005. It was placed on the seafloor at 9 degrees north, 89 degrees east, halfway between Thailand and Sri Lanka.

Officials from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are visiting Indonesia to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with their counterparts from the archipelago nation’s Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries.

The agreement, officially signed last Tuesday, focusses on cooperation in ocean and coastal observations and observing systems, marine and coastal hazard mitigation and ocean climate research.

"Indonesia is an emerging economy," said Richard Spinrad, NOAA assistant administrator for oceanic and atmospheric research, "and it’s a good time for us in the United States to do technology sharing and scientific exchanges. The MOU will give us that opportunity."


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