Photo. On the beach in Pukhet, Thailand. Travel Explorations.
The German company Tsunami Alarm System, is so far the only who offers these official tsunami warnings to user of mobile telephone over the whole world.
According to information on the company`s website, the Tsunami Alarm System make you able to live at the sea or visit your favourite coastal destinations, without being concerned about your safety. By subscribing to the Tsunami-AS, you will receive life-saving alarms reliably and timeously on your mobile telephone wherever in the world you have GSM coverage. You will also protect the lives and health of your family and children.
The company use new technology called Flash SMS. It ensures that the mobile telephone user receive the messages.
The Tsunami Phenomenon
The tsunami phenomenon become world famous on 26 December 2004. On this day the worst tsunami disaster ever occured. It was caused by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean off the island of Sumatra measuring 9,3 on the Richter Scale.
More than 300 000 people (many of them European holiday makers) were killed in eight Asiatic countries. Many of them were tourists from Europe. The regions which was most hardly stroke were Indonesia (especially Sumatra), Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Maldives, Malaysia and Bangladesh.
The flood wave even reached coastlines several thousand kilometres away, like East and Southeast Africa. There were also casualties in Somalia, Tanzania, Kenya, Madagascar and the Seychelles.
Tsunamis threaten the coasts and beaches all over the world. About 10% of all tsunamis reach the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Tsunamis occur most frequently in the Pacific, particularly along the "Pacific Ring of Fire ".
The term tsunami from the Japanese and means "Big wave in the port". The term was coined by fishermen who returned to their ports in the evening after their villages and cities had been devastated by a giant wave although they had not seen any waves on the open sea.
Based on Tsunami Alarm System`s vision, we in Travel Explorations hope that the company can provide the most effective tsunami alarm system to protect the health and lives of their users worldwide.
Stein Morten Lund, 22 August 2006
Additional information
How does the Tsunami Alarm System work?
http://www.tsunami-alarm-system.com/en/tsunami-alarm-system/tsunami-alarm-system.html
What is the right behaviour in the event of a tsunami alarm? What should you do when you receive a Tsunami alarm message on your mobile phone?
Read more about the Tsunami Alarm System http://www.tsunami-alarm-system.com/en/index.php
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