A radar-based early tsunami warning system is currently being installed in three central locations along Israel's Coastal Plain—in Haifa, Ashdod and Hadera—dispersed so as to cover the entirety of Israel's Mediterranean coastal strip.
By connecting into the system, Israel joins a number of southern European and Mediterranean Basin countries, including Lebanon and Turkey, to place the tsunami warning system on their territory.
The warning system is capable of locating suspicious seawater activity such as exceedingly high waves or irregular tides and issue a preemptive warning in time periods of up to an hour.
Within several months' time, the system will also be connected to Home Front Command's siren system, which will then be able to blare an alarm of an impending tsunami hitting Israel.
In such an eventuality, residents will be required to immediately move away from coasts and beaches, whereas people residing on the shoreline will be asked to seek higher ground or flee eastwards.
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The system's 120 sensors will be able to produce an earthquake warning at extremely short notice, of several seconds up to several minutes, depending on the location of the earthquake's epicenter. The system's installation will conclude and it will be declared operational by 2019.
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