Aiming to improve the quality of forecasts, India Friday said it was in talks with Indonesia and Australia to create a tsunami warning system for the entire Indian Ocean region, PTI reported. "We are in talks with Indonesia and Australia to integrate our tsunami warning systems," Indian Earth Sciences Minister Prithviraj Chavan said at a function to release the guidelines for Management of Tsunamis formulated by the National Disaster Management Authority. Launched three years back, the Indian Tsunami Warning System provides advisories to concerned government departments and to vulnerable communities of an impending disaster. The system comprises a real-time network of seismic stations, bottom pressure recorders (BPR), tide gauges and 24x7 operational tsunami warning centre to detect tsunamigenic earthquakes and to monitor tsunamis. Indian scientists and engineers are currently evaluating the Indonesian Tsunami Warning System and exploring ways on how to integrate the two, Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences told PTI.
