Great Britain calls for the creation of a global warning network about cataclysms

The main government scientist, on the direction of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, developed plans for the early warning system that protects the world from natural disasters - from earthquakes and tsunami to clashes with asteroids.

A group led by Professor, Sir David King recommends Britain to achieve the creation of a global warning network in order to reduce the destructive effect of events such as the December tsunami, writes The Times (translation on the Inopressa.ru website).

The initiative worth 100 million pounds, which appeared at the moment when scientists predict the third strong earthquake in Indonesia, is the most convincing evidence that the government recognizes the danger of natural disasters, including space clashes and “spanning” of volcanoes, which have occurred with an interval of tens of thousands of years.

It is expected that Tony Blair, who ordered King, a report after the December tsunami, who claimed 300 thousand lives, will seek from the July Summit of the Big Eight the adoption of this plan.

According to King, the Prime Minister showed great interest in the activities of the working group in natural disasters, and the need to act once again convinced the earthquake that occurred on Monday at Sumatra, as a result of which more than a thousand people died, the newspaper writes.

“Since society realized the risk of natural disasters, it was time to create a system of early warning not only in the Indian Ocean, but to make it global,” he said.

"We must establish a system of early warnings that does not have borders that respond to all physical and natural dangers: earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes and near -Earth objects (asteroids and comets)."

The risk of new shocks in the Indonesia area gave a new acceleration to the proposal. Yesterday, scientists warned that the earthquake could destabilize the collapse nearby.

The pressure on the break near Sumatra increased after an earthquake by force of 9.3 points that caused the tsunami. The break passes under the destroyed city of the gang of Achech.

The King group, consisting of leading seismologists, volcanologists and asteroid specialists, will convince the "eight" of the need to create a large -scale system that warns of various threats. It should include seismic detectors, buoys warning of tsunami, monitoring of existing volcanoes, tracking asteroids and comets that may encounter the ground.

A detailed estimate will be developed by the International Commission like a climate change, which gives politicians recommendations in connection with global warming.

"The need for timely qualified recommendations by the scientific community has become obvious in recent months, and at present there is no way to do this," King said.

According to the working group for natural disasters, the costs of the system can be from 70 million to 140 million pounds.

King said that the Eight Summit, which will be present in the developing countries, would be an ideal forum to discuss the initiative.

“We are presiding in the G8, and at the Summit in Scotland there will be not only the“ eight ”, the Prime Minister also invited China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico,” he said. “It seems to me that this will be the perfect opportunity to break through the initiative.”

Professor Bill McGir from the London University College, a member of the King group, said: "We are talking about large -scale global threats. Some of them can be long -term, but something like this is really necessary."

The earthquake that happened on Monday was predicted in two weeks by scientists from the University of Olster, who found that damage to the fault of Sumatra increased the pressure in the Sunda basin, where the last earthquake occurred.

Scientists also found that the pressure on the break under the northern part of the island increased, and last night they calculated whether it would increase even more as a result of the earthquake that occurred on Monday.

John McCloski, who headed the group, said: "I am most worried about the collapse of Sumatra, who had previously been under strong pressure." The southern part of the Sunda is also destabilized, which can provoke the tsunami that will affect the southern Sumatra, Java and the northern part of Australia, concludes the publication.