UNESCO to transform tsunami alert system into global network

UNESCO to transform tsunami alert system into global network

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius - UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Port Louis on Jan. 12. He said UNESCO will establish a tsunami alert system in the Indian Ocean region by June 2006 and transform its early warning system into a global network by June 2007. Matsuura was in Mauritius to attend the U.N. international meeting on the sustainable development of small-island developing countries.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001107130
  • Registered date
  • 2005/1/13 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2005 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 1228 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 529.98(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Delegates discuss tsunami warning plans at U.N. confab

    Delegates discuss tsunami warning plans at U.N. confab

    KOBE, Japan - Delegates at the U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction hold a special plenary session Jan. 20 in Kobe to discuss plans to establish a tsunami early warning system for Indian Ocean coastal areas.