Russian Tsunami Warning System
Emergency warning system in the Russian Far East
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The Russian tsunami warning system development began in 1956 to 1959. This followed the tsunami and damage which occurred during the 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake. After this, a government decree was issued for the organization of a tsunami warning service. Since 1956, the seismic part of the work was carried out by the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station.
In 2003, following the creation of the Unified State System for the Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Situations (RSChS; (Russian: РСЧС), the tsunami warning service received the status of a functional subsystem of the unified system with the acronym FP RSChS-Tsunami (Russian: ФП РСЧС-Цунами).
In the second half of 2000, the system began a modernization process which included the deployment of new buoys.
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Operations
The Russian tsunami warning system includes a network of seismological stations, a hydrophysical (level) network, tsunami warning centers, and a communication system for tsunami warnings. System components are located in Sovetskaya Gavan, Nevelsk, Rudnaya Pristan, Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Preobrazhenye, Uglegorsk, Poronaysk, Starodubskoye, Kholmsk, Korsakov, Cape Crillon, Yuzhno Kurilsk and Vodopadnaya.