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Tsunami alert wasn’t needed, says NDWC
The National Disaster Warning centre (NDWC) Thailand, has defended its decision not to issue an early tsunami alert after the 8.4-magnitude earthquake off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on Wednesday evening. Instead, the NDWC made a broadcast three hours later telling people there was no cause for alarm. Centre chairman Smith Dharmasarojana said [...]
Bridging the “last mile”
LIRNEasia HazInfo project partner Nalaka Gunawardene has written an excellent piece on ICTs and disasters, referring in some detail to the ongoing HazInfo project.
Bridging the long ‘last mile’ in Sri Lanka / 2006/4 / Media Development / Publications / Home – World Association for Christian Communication
While the countries of South and Southeast Asia were [...]
Indonesians die again without official warning
What will it take?
2004 December 26th
2005 March 28th
2006 July 17th
Three tsunamis within less than two years; and the clueless Indonesian government can’t still get its act together.
And faraway India is supposed to have issued a warning when there was no chance of a tsunami hitting India. CYA bureaucrat, I guess. A different error.
Sri [...]
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