BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Caribbean countries will be automatically alerted in the event of any major differences in sea level rise or major displacements due to earthquakes.
Speaking at the launch of launch of Caribe Wave 2013, acting director of the Coastal Zone Management Unit (CZMU), Dr Lorna Inniss, said the system was important given the fact that tsunamis were waves that travelled between and among countries.
"Therefore, there needs to be regional cooperation which we already have. We have established an inter-governmental coordination group for the wider Caribbean region, and we have about 34 countries that participate. All the countries that border the Caribbean Sea are a part of that system," she said.
She said that once a warning was received from the Regional Warning Centre, it would be fed to the focal point of each country automatically, adding that another feature of the system is that of hazard assessment, which involved understanding the hazard itself.
"You know about Kick 'em Jenny, (underwater volcano in Grenada) but what do you (really) know about Kick 'em Jenny? People keep asking 'is it dangerous or is it not?' This is the science. It is only the scientists who can tell us that," she said.
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