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(回答先: インド洋５カ国に津波警報センター 早期運営へ、ユネスコ会合 共同 投稿者 倉田佳典 日時 2005 年 3 月 08 日 21:59:43)
津波の大規模災害を防ぐために振動のデータを他NGOと共有することが、核実験禁止条約を推進する組織the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organizationで決定された。核実験のデータを政府以外と共有することで核実験禁止条約が弱体化される懸念への警戒と、また、核兵器の監視が疎かにならないように注意せねばならないとの意見が内部から出ている。
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/08/news/tsunami.html
Atomic agency agrees to share data on tsunamis
By James Kanter International Herald Tribune
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/09/news/tsunami.html
Pact for tsunami alerts
By James Kanter International Herald Tribune
Thursday, March 10, 2005（最後の段落が削除されている）
PARIS One of the world's nuclear watchdog agencies has agreed to share sensitive seismic data with nongovernmental organizations to advance efforts to construct an early-warning system to prevent the kind of destruction that devastated Southeast Asia in December when tsunamis killed an estimated quarter of a million people.
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The decision, taken by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, paves the way for scientists to start testing detection and communications systems to protect the region.
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"We'll be providing this data in real time, with no delay, to a future alert center in the Indian Ocean, upon their request," said Bernhard Wrabetz, a senior adviser at the Vienna-based organization.
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United Nations experts say that an early-warning system for the Indian Ocean could be fully functional by next year and should eventually operate globally to help protect people living near other oceans and seas, including the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.
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"We'll see in the next three months if this data can be used for disaster-warning systems and not just to monitor nuclear testing," said Patricio Bernal, executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or Unesco.
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Bernal said the seismic data should be available to countries in the region beginning April 1.
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He also announced plans for six new sites near Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia - countries that suffered some of the highest death tolls in December - to monitor sea levels.
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He said 15 other monitoring sites in the Indian Ocean region would be upgraded. The data-sharing deal with the test-ban treaty organization comes as Unesco members agreed Tuesday to use similar standards to communicate information about earthquakes and ocean levels, and warn each other about potential disasters.
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The Pacific Ocean has the world's most advanced tsunami warning system, and experts said a similar system in Southeast Asia could have lessened the scale of December's catastrophe.
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"It's very clear that no one country can establish a tsunami warning system by itself," said Reid Basher, a senior Unesco adviser on disaster reduction. "These efforts need networking and collaboration across regions and across sectors."
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Unesco must still broker an agreement among South Asian nations about whether to create a central tsunami-monitoring station or to distribute tasks among countries in the region.
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The decision to share nuclear-testing data was a sensitive one for the test-ban treaty organization.
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Some among the treaty's 175 signers sought assurances that the treaty, in place since 1996, would not be weakened by the plan to share seismic data for the first time with bodies other than governments.
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Other signers wanted assurances that the tsunami alert center would not change the prime purpose of the monitoring system - to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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"However urgent the hazard is, trying to change political agendas that have been in place for decades is very difficult," said Laura Kong, director of the International Tsunami Information Center in Honolulu. "This essentially adds more data points to a growing global seismic network."
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