[extropy-chat] Putting the tsunami into context

[scerir]

"NOAA scientists then began an effort to notify countries
about the possibility that a tsunami may have been triggered
by the massive 9.0 undersea earthquake. The Pacific Basin
tsunami warning system did not detect a tsunami in the
Indian Ocean since there are no buoys in place there.
Even without a way to detect whether a tsunami had formed
in the Indian Ocean, NOAA officials tried to get the message 
out to other nations not a part of its Pacific warning system
to alert them of the possibility of a tsunami."
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2358.htm

It seems interesting to know how those South Asian
countries reacted to these informations coming from NOAA! 

The UNESCO for a world-wide tsunami warning system
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24336&URL_DO=
DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html