Tsunami Warnings Delivered via Mobile Phones?

This announcement came through today from a Swedish health services called MedDay:

MedDay Has Breakthrough Solution for Tsunami Warning System

MedDay has developed an alert system called RegPoint that expedites communication between health care providers and patients and is used to detect public health threats and epidemics. MedDay is working with seismologists at Upsala University to adapt the RegPoint infrastructure to send out tsunami warnings through the mobile phones of people in danger areas.

From what I understand, tsunami warning systems exist now only in the Pacific. Global systems being proposed are based on networks of water buoys, wave gauges and seismic sensors -- see this article at MSNBC.

AB -- 1/24/05

The opinions and views expressed in comments, blogs, etc. are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of TMC, TMCnet, or its editors. TMCnet reserves the right to edit, delete, or otherwise make changes to the content that appears on these pages at its own discretion and as it deems necessary.

January 24, 2005 5:36 PM |