Indian Ocean tsunami warning system by mid-2006
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chcr
Too cute for words
Knee jerk reaction, IMO.
1. Tsunamis are vanishingly rare in the Eastern Indian Ocean.
2. The vast majority fo casualties occurred in Indonesia. It's unlikely that any warning would have arrived quickly enough to make a difference.
3. Given the infrastructure in the affected countries, I wonder how much difference even a timely warning might have made.
Not that I think it's necessarily a bad thing, I just don't think it's the answer everyone seems to be looking for.
1. Tsunamis are vanishingly rare in the Eastern Indian Ocean.
2. The vast majority fo casualties occurred in Indonesia. It's unlikely that any warning would have arrived quickly enough to make a difference.
3. Given the infrastructure in the affected countries, I wonder how much difference even a timely warning might have made.
Not that I think it's necessarily a bad thing, I just don't think it's the answer everyone seems to be looking for.
tank girl
New Member
to an extent, you're right - however if preventative measures, emergency plans and education about recognising the danger of a tsunami took place, it is possible lives could have been saved - tsunamis and earthquakes ARE unpredictable - the attitude that they were rare in the indian ocean was the excuse that governments used to save investing in such a system in the first place - so it doesn't hurt to make efforts to learn from mistakes, and overcome doubts and assumptions and get disaster risk manegement underway - (unless you have a reliable prophet on hand or something 
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Have you not heard of the stories where people had survived or been saved thanks to the actions of a few that recognised the sea receding as sign of a tsunami and warned everybody to head off to higher ground? In one case, an entire village was saved
I think full investigations should be done into animals ability to sense the tsunami coming in a way that humans couldn't- and explore how to make use of that.
)Have you not heard of the stories where people had survived or been saved thanks to the actions of a few that recognised the sea receding as sign of a tsunami and warned everybody to head off to higher ground? In one case, an entire village was saved
I think full investigations should be done into animals ability to sense the tsunami coming in a way that humans couldn't- and explore how to make use of that.
Winky
Well-Known Member
Well at least all them peeps didn’t perish for naught.
I heard today the US will setup our own tidal wave
detection net.
Are the latest numbers for those who 'supposedly' perished
in this event to be believed?
Oh and yes in most of those places a warning would have been useless. It's not like the connected society we have here. And the density of population near the coasts there is unimaginable!
TG you still getting paid by the werd ain't ya?
I heard today the US will setup our own tidal wave
detection net.
Are the latest numbers for those who 'supposedly' perished
in this event to be believed?
Oh and yes in most of those places a warning would have been useless. It's not like the connected society we have here. And the density of population near the coasts there is unimaginable!
TG you still getting paid by the werd ain't ya?
unclehobart
New Member
Someone will probably accuse us of trying to plant spy stuff in the water along with the water monitoring gear.
