News Forum - Thai officials say out-of-order tsunami buoys will be repaired

[Thaiger]

Thailand’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department has admitted that 2 tsunami detection buoys are out of order, but insists they will be repaired soon. The department was forced to issue a statement following widely-shared news on social media that the buoys were out of order. According to the reports, both buoys had stopped submitting information to the National Data Buoy Centre website, which is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the US. According to a Nation Thailand report, a statement issued by the DPMD says 1 tsunami buoy (known as “Station 23401”) had been deployed in the […]

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[HiuMak]

Will have to rely on the birds to run from the Tsunami this year. 

[Alwasel]

Subsea and surface PPM's are required on these buoys to avoid this happening. 

[Prosaap]

Officials say they remain confident in their ability to issue timely warnings of any impending tsunami threat.
 

as long as its not before november it make me laugh but its really very sad it shows one more time how incompetent the thai are