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To: wolfpat

Probably posted somewhere but bears repeating.........

The catastrophic death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced had India and Sri Lanka been part of an international warning system designed to warn coastal communities about potentially deadly waves, scientists say.

Some 6,800 people in India and Sri Lanka were among the more than 11,000 people killed after being hit by walls of water triggered by a tremendous earthquake early Sunday off Sumatra.

"They had no tidal gauges and they had no warning," said Waverly Person, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., which monitors seismic activity worldwide. "There are no buoys in the Indian Ocean and that's where this tsunami occurred."


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Quake%20Warning%20System


14 posted on 12/27/2004 6:28:45 AM PST by WestCoastGal (Where is my tagline?)
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To: WestCoastGal

Yeah, but what does that have to do with the rotation of the Earth?


19 posted on 12/27/2004 6:31:46 AM PST by wolfpat
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