Specialists from the United Nations and Indian Sea nations agreed to established up a tsunami caution method to stop a repeat of the catastrophe that struck on December 26, Unesco explained.

A totally functioning method that detects undersea earthquakes and broadcasts warnings to coastal communities is expected to be in place by the end of 2006, stated Patricio Bernal, executive secretary of Unesco's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, on Tuesday.

"The Indian Sea nations have agreed between themselves to arranged up an early tsunami warning system for the complete Indian Sea basin," Bernal mentioned. The basin extends to the 11 southern Asian coastlines devastated by the December tsunami.

At a five-day meeting at Unesco's headquarters in Paris, authorities also laid out a timetable for the project and interim measures to help guard the location that was battered by the killer Asian tsunami.

Japan and the United States are to start offering alerts on seismic activity to the area beginning on April 1. The two nations have the world's most superior tsunami caution methods, and a UN-co-ordinated network based in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, difficulties alerts for 26 Pacific Ocean nations.

Could be extended by 2007

Authorities say a comparable program in southern Asia would have saved numerous lives in the Dec 26 disaster.

Operate will also commence on installing systems that can detect modifications in sea level and broadcast the info in true time to nations around the world in possible danger.

Tidal gauges will be installed at six internet sites, mainly off the coasts of difficult-hit Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, Bernal stated. One more 15 existing internet sites will be upgraded all-around the location.

"We expect to have all individuals devices operative by October or November," Bernal said.

A second Unesco-sponsored meeting will be held up coming month in Mauritius to finalise policy matters and broach divisive inquiries, including no matter whether one particular region would host a disaster warning centre or if the responsibilities would be distributed across the location, Bernal mentioned.

Member states strategy to meet in June to formally adopt the prepare, but operate is getting beneath way immediately.

Officials hope to extend the program globally by 2007 to cover other regions at risk, such as the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the southwest Pacific. Read more: Bet365 Malaysia