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Affected countries had no warning of Sunday's devastating sea wave that killed tens of thousands of people unnecessarily because tsunamis are so rare in the area they are not tracked.

An early warning system operated by NOAA to raise the alarm of tsunamis and save lives already covers much of the Pacific, according to a report by Reuters news agency.
Sunday's wall of water that hit coasts in Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka and other countries was spotted by U.S. seismologists.

However, they said they had no way to warn local governments even though the tsunami hit shore up to two-and-a-half hours after the mega-quake off the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

"We tried to do what we could," said Charles McCreery, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Honolulu centre. "We don't have contacts in our address book for anybody in that part of the world." [emphasis added]
For more information concerning this natural disaster, visit The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami weblog , or SEA-EAT blog.
Posted by abnu on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 @ 2:39 PM [ + ]

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