>I think that the problem is that the areas that this tragedy hit were some of the poorest in the world. also they are areas of military conflict, the area worst effected in indonesia, ache, had up until a few days ago banned foreign aid workers! these countries do not live on regulary active faults and when weighed against food etc the warning systems required will always have to give may to basic necesities.
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>~MOK. So they don't invest a few million in a buoy-seismograph early warning system. I'll buy that (even though, India for example invested a few billion in developing nuclear weapons). But consider the 'cost' of alerting the people by radio/TV. Not much, right? All it takes is organization and a willigness to do it. If seismographs detected this all over the world, how come the involved governments didn't react? As said, those on the Indian Ocean's west coast (India, Sri Lanka) had almost an hour an a half to broadcat a warning. Maybe some people would have been saved, considering that many people saw the wave, ran and survived.
