balinews
[ATTACH type="full" align="left" width="400px" alt="Tsunami warning"]3227[/ATTACH]"Dewa Putu Mantera, the agency's acting head, has ever proposed the procurement of ten more sirens of Indonesia's Tsunami Early Warning System (Ina-TEWS)," Head of the Bali Disaster Mitigation Agency I Made Rentin said on Sunday.Those tsunami warning sirens would be installed in the Candi Kusuma, Yeh Ebang, Surabrata, Yeh Gangga, and Peti Tenget Beaches in the western areas coastal areas of Bali as well as five other beaches in the island's eastern coastal areas.The beaches that would receive the tsunami warning sirens were Lebih, Kusamba, Padang Bai Port, Candi Desa, and Jasi, Rentin said, adding that the Bali provincial government had proposed the installments of 10 more tsunami warning sirens to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) in 2012 and 2019.The procurement of these sirens could work with private sector through the enterprises' social corporate responsibility programs, he said.Indonesia lies on the Circum-Pacific Belt, also known as the Ring of Fire, where several tectonic plates meet and cause frequent volcanic and seismic activities.As a result, many parts of the archipelago, including Bali, are prone to earthquakes that frequently trigger tsunami, as could be observed from last year's deadly earthquakes in Palu, and the districts of Donggala and Sigi, Central Sulawesi Province.[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.tempo.co/read/1174205/bali-needs-10-more-tsunami-warning-sirens-agency[/URL]
Markit
The question is is would any of these sirens be hooked to an early warning system because that doesn't work here either?The best advice I've heard from an earthquake specialist was if the earth quakes for longer than 20 seconds head for the hills.
harryopal
It seems most public emergency systems are more public relations exercises than strategies that are likely to be effective. Here and there in Bali are signs indicating evacuation points. Can you imagine the chaos when perhaps a hundred or more people, frightened for their lives and without any training as to what they might actually do, collide at one of these points.I recall 30 years ago the Australian national broadcaster in Australia, the ABC. decided to set up an emergency response system to be able to keep the public informed in the event of some calamitous event. There was a chain of command set up with appropriate telephone numbers. Within 2 weeks the system had become redundant as ABC personnel changed positions or moved elsewhere.The best emergency response is consider your own location and work out how to get to a safer point. Just one road accident would block retreats on many roads. As Markit said, "Head for the Hills" but don't forget the possibility of longsor.
JohnnyCool
There [I]was[/I] a tsunami warning thing at Kuta Beach. The "operators" had monthly drills.The flaw was that the devices didn't work in the first place!And [B]if[/B] they did, what would anybody actually do? Where would they run, hide, given the numbers and the normal traffic chaos?Building more of these "systems" around Bali is [I]maybe[/I] a "good idea", but they have to be actually functioning properly, or what's the point?"Warnings" are one thing, [I][B]but what next[/B][/I]?Aaw shit. Gotta run somewhere [B]right[/B] now. Find my motorbike, car, without getting killed trying to cross the road getting to it in a full-on panic situation.Hey mister: [I]transport?Yeah... Wayan, Made, Putuh, Nyoman, Kuta Cowboy,...where's the nearest helicopter port?o_O[/I]
