‘Know disaster risks and how to lessen the impact’
BINTULU: The Malaysian Meteorological Department will continue to organise programmes that increase the people’s awareness of the risk of disasters and the best way to reduce their impact.
Its director- general Dato Che Gayah Ismail said the government through MetMalaysia had developed the National Tsunami Early Warning System to monitor earthquake and tsunami activities in the country.
The system contains an earthquake and tsunami monitoring network involving 64 seismic sensors, 17 tide gauge system, 18 beach cameras and 53 tsunami sirens installed at strategic locations throughout the country.
Sarawak has been installed with nine seismic sensors, three tsunami sirens and tide gauge system.
“MetMalaysia is committed to increase its ability and upgrade infrastructure and equipment supplying meteorological and seismological data,” she said at the natural disasters awareness campaign at BDA Auditorium yesterday.
She said exposure to safety awareness in residential areas would enable more lives to be saved.
Che Gayah believed such campaigns could help create a society that practise safety culture.
Among those present was Sarawak Security Unit secretary Datu Yusoff Nook representing state secretary and the state Meteorological Department director Loh Eng Kee.