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Building a tsunami warning system.

Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives
Publication Date: 01-FEB-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Building a tsunami warning system.(Natural Disasters)

Article Excerpt
The 26 December 2004 tsunami that devastated coastal areas in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Somalia was produced by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake 155 kilometers southwest of northern Sumatra. The tsunami inundated coasts with waves more than 30 feet high every 30-40 minutes for several hours. It killed more than 150,000 people and injured millions, making it one of the worst natural disasters the modern world has ever seen.

Could populations have been warned in advance? Not with the tsunami monitoring networks that exist in the...

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