It supervised creation of a system for nations on the edges of the Indian Ocean after the great earthquake and tsunami of two thousand four.
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At least two of its six tsunami-sensing buoys stationed in the Pacific Ocean were out of service on the day the notorious IndianOceantsunami erupted last December.
Important Research Institutes of the Euro-Mediterranean region will participate to the meeting together with UNESCO-IOC which, in response to the tragic IndianOceantsunamion 26 December 2004, was mandated of coordinating the establishment of the Mediterranean Tsunami Early Warning System.