A few days back, on April 11th 2012, a powerful earthquake occurred not too far from Aceh. Naturally, fears of a tsunami were uppermost in people’s minds. It’s been some time since we at LIRNEasia did funded disaster-related research, but within minutes, I was receiving requests for analysis on the lines of the post-mortems we’ve done after every major disaster in the region. So I started keeping notes and writing up a short piece. So far it has been carried in
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Nalaka Gunawardene
I have reiterated this point in an op ed published today – thanks for doing the initial analysis that helped a great deal.
Nurturing Public Trust in Times of Crisis: Reflections on April 11 Tsunami Warning
http://groundviews.org/2012/04/26/nurturing-public-trust-in-times-of-crisis-reflections-on-april-11-tsunami-warning/
Rohan Samarajiva
I hope you will take this conversation to the Sinhala media too.
Nalaka Gunawardene
Rohan,
Thanks for suggesting, which I’ve done – my weekly Sinhala column in Ravaya is devoted to this topic this Sunday. It uses the same info and analysis as the English op ed, but pitched at a slightly different level. Now online at:
http://tiny.cc/AvuTsu2
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