Lisbon’s Civil Protection service has announced that another phase of the implementation of the 'Tsunami Warning and Alert System in the Tagus Estuary' has been concluded
in News, Lisbon · 06 Apr 2021, 11:02 · 0 Comments
This next phase has seen "the placement and connection of the first electronic information equipment to the population" in Lisbon.
The speaker system is installed in the Império Square and its main objective is "to disclose and raise awareness among the population about risks, measures and behaviours of self-protection and other topics within the scope of Civil Protection".
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