KL to build tsunami warning system

KL to build tsunami warning system

MALAYSIA: Malaysia will set up a tsunami warning system costing
US$5 million by the end of this year, the government said on
Sunday.

American and Japanese maritime experts will help install the
system around the coast of the northern peninsular, as well as
Sabah and Sarawak state on Borneo island, Science and Technology
Minister Jamaludin Jarjis was quoted as saying by the national
news agency, Bernama.

The sultanate of Brunei, which borders Sarawak, is expected to
share the system with Malaysia, Jamaludin added, without saying
whether Brunei would bear part of the cost.

Jamaludin's comments came as thousands of Malaysians in Sabah
returned to their coastal homes on Sunday after a false tsunami
scare that followed a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the neighboring
southern Philippines on late Saturday.

Residents fled for higher ground after the prime minister's
Crisis and Disaster Center issued Malaysia's first-ever tsunami
alert following the Philippine quake, local media reported. --AP