{"id":36728,"date":"2012-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.blazedream.in\/ICSF\/newss\/s-americas-pacific-coast-eyes-tsunami-warning-system"},"modified":"2012-09-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T00:00:00","slug":"s-americas-pacific-coast-eyes-tsunami-warning-system","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/s-americas-pacific-coast-eyes-tsunami-warning-system\/","title":{"rendered":"S. America&#8217;s Pacific coast eyes tsunami warning system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials from countries along South America&#8217;s Pacific coast met at a UNESCO-sponsored event in Peru&#8217;s capital Tuesday to design a tsunami early-warning system.<\/p>\n<p>Experts from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile &#8212; all countries sitting on the seismically active Pacific ring of fire &#8212; included oceanographers, seismologists, and natural disaster response officials.<\/p>\n<p>They are ironing out a protocol expected to be named &#8220;Standard Operating Procedures for Tsunami Alert Communications in the Southeastern Pacific.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UNESCO has been working on this regional program among the four countries so that they share regional, national and local strategies to reduce risks in coastal areas,&#8221; said Fernando Berrios, an official with the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).<\/p>\n<p>One of the South American nations&#8217; goals is to link their national early warning alert systems.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2010, a massive earthquake hit Chile&#8217;s central Maule region, south of Valparaiso, generating tsunami waves, killing more than 500 people and causing billions of dollars in damage.<\/p>\n<p>2012 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":27201,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[1290,2743,1294],"region":[2006],"source":[1986],"country":[],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/36728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/36728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36728"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=36728"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=36728"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=36728"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=36728"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=36728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}