Our work is to establish the Live Visual Tsunami Warning System throughout the world, where the tsunami danger exists, to mitigate or significantly reduce the tsunami casualties from future great tsunami events.
Even though Japan had the most advanced tsunami warning system in the world, in 2011 the Tohoku Japan tsunami catastrophe claimed 19,000 lives. The existing tsunami warning systems including the pacific tsunami warning system (DART) will not work for all the impacted population, and also there are many areas where there are no tsunami warning systems in existence today.
The 2004 Indonesian Earthquake lost an estimated 260,000 lives, and this is the worst natural disaster in modern history. However, if you look at the Indonesia tsunami timeline, the 1st tsunami wave arrival time was more than one hour for most places, even in Indonesia, and the majority of the tsunami casualties reported were more than one hour from the initial earthquake.
