South Mumbai will reverberate to a minute-long continuous hoot shortly after noon on Monday, when the Meteorology Office of Western Naval Command tests the siren of the newly installed Tsunami Early Warning System near INS Angre along SBS Marg at Colaba in south Mumbai.
“We will test the siren of the newly- installed Tsunami Early Warning System between 12 noon and 12.10 pm on Monday near INS Angre,” a defence spokesperson said here on Sunday.
The siren and a digital electronic board are part of a system that issues early warning in case of a Tsunami threat in the Indian Ocean region (IOR). “The siren has a radical range of 3 km in all directions and will have continuous hoot for one minute,” the spokesperson said.
The tsunami warning system is installed at the Meteorology Office of Western Naval Command by Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), an autonomous organisation under Ministry of Earth & Sciences (MoES), Government of India.
Once this test is successful, the siren will be connected to and remotely controlled by INCOIS, Hyderabad and will operate in case of a possible Tsunami threat in the local region.
“Post successful completion of drill, we intend to carry out testing of the Tsunami Warning Siren on regular basis between 12 noon and 12.10 pm on 2nd and 4th Saturdays of every month commencing November 1,” the spokesperson added.