Vietnam conducts tsunami warning exercise
The standing office of the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, in collaboration with the Institute of Geophysics, conducted an exercise on the operational mechanism of disaster warning systems in case of a tsunami, in Hanoi on December 26.
The Prime Minister issued Decision No. 430/QD-TTg dated April 12, 2012, approving a project on building a tsunami warning lookout systems for high-risk areas, with the first phase to be piloted in Da Nang and Quang Nam. So far, the project has finalised the construction of 51 stations – 30 in Da Nang and 21 in Quang Nam.
Nguyen Minh
