Wendy Watson-Wright, UNESCO Assistant Director-General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), confirmed that the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System issued timely tsunami alert messages on this event.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

The Indian Ocean nations decided to establish an Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWS) in the wake of the 2004 catastrophe.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

UNESCO-IOC established the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System following the 2004 earthquake and tsunami off the shores of Indonesia that took the lives of over 200, 000 people.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

The Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System functioned effectively during the magnitude 7.7 earthquake and tsunami.

UNESCO: THEMES

The latest full-scale test of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System had taken place on 12 October 2011.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

The Tsunami Warning System in the Indian Ocean was launched and is now operational.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Important Research Institutes of the Euro-Mediterranean region will participate to the meeting together with UNESCO-IOC which, in response to the tragic Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004, was mandated of coordinating the establishment of the Mediterranean Tsunami Early Warning System.

UNESCO: Communication and Information