If the area they were placed in was prone to blizzards, earthquakes, terrorist outbreaks or anything else the public to be educated that if it heard the sirens it meant that specific disaster was likely occurring, had occurred or was about to occur.
The sirens are also universally recognized as a warning system therefore the process of installation and public education would not be significantly difficult to complete.
TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM
The world was shocked and traumatized when the Indian Ocean Tsunami hit a few years ago and hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of that disaster.
When it struck there was very little or no warning for most of those who were impacted by its arrival.
Most people did not know it was coming until they saw the giant wave coming toward them as they stood on shore (Indian Ocean tsunami warning system (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4524642.stm).
While the Pacific Ocean areas have warning systems in place the Indian Ocean areas did not and as a result of that hundreds of thousands of people were killed within a few minutes.
Seismic gauges are relatively simple from a technical standpoint but have the potential and ability to save millions of lives if another tsunami ever hits that region.
One of the concerns with using a seismic indicator to predict a tsunami is that those tools have a high rate of false alarms. This could lead to people in the area to grow accustomed to false alarms and begin ignoring them...
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