Mexico City, Mexico – Mexico's Secretary of the Interior announced on Tuesday that the government has launched a national tsunami alert system (Sinat) to monitor earthquakes around the world and help establish the level of risk to the Mexico coastline.

The system will bring together data from the Ministries of the Interior, Navy, Communications and Transport, as well as university bodies and scientific research centers that already monitor quake activities. The data gathered would then be analyzed and an alert sent to the federal government.

The Mexican Navy Secretariat will be in charge of all the system’s operational duties, and is obligated to create a Tsunami Alert Center.

The Interior Ministry stated that the creation of the Sinat is in line with the secretariat’s mandate to train state and local units of the Civil Protection Agency to deal with the effects of natural disasters.

While there have been no large scale tsunamis that have affected Mexico in decades, the country has experienced an exorbitant number of earthquakes this year. Underwater tremors are the main cause of tsunamis.

The system is expected to be operational in 30 days.