The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says a tsunami warning system for the entire Indian Ocean is up and running as scheduled.
UNESCO has been overseeing the scheme.
It says a network of 26 national tsunami information centres have been set up in Indian Ocean countries, capable of receiving and distributing tsunami advisories around the clock.
There have also been 25 new seismographic stations created, which provide data in real time to centres that analyse the location and depth of a quake and compute whether there is a risk of a tsunami.
However UNESCO warns that international coordination and governments need to improve their individual emergency response procedures.
The tsunami warning system was set up after the December 26, 2004, tsunami, triggered by an earthquake just west of Indonesia.
More than 220,000 people were killed in 12 countries.
- RADIO AUSTRALIA
Indian Ocean tsunami warning system up and running
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