Scientists deliver tsunami warning software for Indonesia

The software was developed by Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Ocean Research in the port city Bremerhaven.

Buoys which measure seabed movements and pulses in the water have already been placed along the Sumatran coast and the Jakarta lab has already issued coastal warnings after earthquakes.

The software will make the predictions both more precise and quicker, institute scientists said as the software was handed over the German Geo-Research Centre in Potsdam, near Berlin.

Indonesia suffered 160,000 deaths in the 2004 quake. A tsunami can reach its coasts within less than half an hour of offshore quakes.