The tsunami warning panel installed in 2011 in Setúbal assumed this Thursday an important role to be the target of a test of the new alert system developed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), which lets you send an alert in the event of any tsunami, whether seismic origin or caused by a landslide.
It was in 2011 that the Municipality of Setúbal, the JRC (Joint Research Centre) and the IPMA, agreed to install a panel Tsunami alert on Albarquel Urban Park in support of the JRC research in this area, test new mechanisms and at the same time, ensuring the city and its inhabitants in this kind of natural disaster.
“There are natural concerns in the region that can not go unnoticed to the council” stressed the mayor, Maria das Dores Meira, creasing the entire municipal investment that has been made in the area of civil protection in recent years.
Setúbal was chosen for this test, not only for all the interest of the municipality previously shown, but also because “Setúbal has a high sensitivity in this type of situations,” said Alessandro as Annunziato, researcher at the JRC.
Experience held yesterday at the equipment installed on Pier secil, had as main objective, to examine whether the real-time transmission of the signal from the measuring to the touch panel system is really reliable and demonstrate that the measurement of sea level can be effectively used as drive mechanism of the Tsunami Warning System, automatically triggering alerts to the population at risk.
The test was conducted by the technical team of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and consisted of computer simulation of rising corresponding to a Tsunami sea level, in a setting created from known data during the 1755 earthquake that devastated Lisbon and Setúbal seriously affected.
The moment was detected a significant rise in sea level, in this case, a variation of 2.5 meters above the normal level, the system triggered an alert to the JRC researchers as well as to local authorities that make up this project. Confirmed the risk, the population is alerted with a warning that appears on the touch panel installed on the Albarquel Urban Park accompanied by a siren installed on the top panel, featuring, from that time, four minutes to protect a hillside .
After the test, in statements to the communication agency “Train of Words”, the JRC researcher, Alessandro Annunziato, confesses that he is very pleased with the end result, “We are delighted, because everything is working well, but we are even more pleased that some of the people here, who do not realize that it was a test, immediately called for firefighters to warn that something was wrong. “
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