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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS003 Oral Presentation 1866<br />

Status of the GITEWS project The German-Indonesian contribution to the<br />

Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system<br />

Dr. Alexander Rudloff<br />

Geophysics <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Joern Lauterjung, Gitews Project Team<br />

On the road to an effective Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean first milestones have<br />

been achieved. About ten seismological broadband sensors have been installed throughout Indonesia,<br />

on the Islands of Nias, Sumatra, Java, and Kalimantan. Some GPS stations and tide gauges have also<br />

been installed. A new version of the seismological software package SeisComP will be released soon.<br />

The marine equipment, consisting of GPS buoys and ocean bottom sensors, has been testing since<br />

November 2005. New deployments withmodified components are planned for mid 2007. New<br />

bathymetric data has been collected through several research vessel cruises. Together with integrated<br />

images from earlier collections all data covers an area of more about 100.000 square kilometres, mainly<br />

off coast Sumatra. The bathymetry builds the base for the unstructured grid of the tsunami modelling<br />

group. A couple of sensitivity analysis and wave propagation tests have been calculated and a simplified<br />

run-up was integrated. The architecture of the Early Warning and Mitigation centre (EWMS), a Decision<br />

Support System (DSS)and a communication concept have been planned.The capacity building branch<br />

has started with 8 PhD candidates from the Indian Ocean region for a special programme, working at<br />

their home institutes and at German partner institutes. Since the project and its activities address nearly<br />

all Indian Ocean rim countries, cooperation withcountries like Sri Lanka, Yemen, Tanzania, and South<br />

Africa are planned or already realized.The project is carried out through a large group of scientists and<br />

engineers from GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) and its partners from German Aerospace Centre<br />

(DLR), Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), GKSS Research Centre, Leibniz-<br />

Institute for Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), United Nations University (UNU), Federal Institute for<br />

Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), as well as<br />

from Indonesian and other international partners. Website: http://www.gitews.org<br />

Keywords: tsunami, early, warning

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