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« Opera: voice-activated browsing | Main | Craigslist eats into billion dollar classifieds market » December 28, 2004Natural catastrophe: monitoring and warning system to come?Two days after the world's worst earthquake for 40 years devastated coastal regions of South Asia, washed away by with 30 foot tsunamis, it emerged that no official warning channels existed. According to USGS: Warnings could have saved thousands, US researchers who detected the massive quake tried to contact governments in the area to warn of an impending tsumani alert. However, only Australia, Indomesia, and groups of Pacific islands had any kind of notification alert in place. The reason being is simply that this was a rare high magnitude event, and those countries that suffered most had no informal evacuation procedure in place in the event of a tsumani threatening, let alone any kind of official government channels. It's considered unlikely that the Indian Ocean itself will suffer such a major event anytime soon. However, it remains a clear lesson to the world that greater communication needs to be allowed between major earth monitoring stations and regional governments, so in the event of a major event being recorded, local officials in identified danger areas can be notified to take action. After all, as XX said: "It took an hour and a half for the wave to get from the earthquake to Sri Lanka and an hour for it to get...to the west coast of Thailand and Malaysia," said Charles McCreery, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's center in Honolulu. "You can walk inland for 15 minutes to get to a safe area." Posted by at December 28, 2004 03:26 PM > Discuss this in the Platinax Internet business forums |
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