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Finally, India decides to join international tsunami warning network
As the death toll in India reaches nearly 7000 people today after the tsunami waves hit its coastal areas on Sunday night, India has decided to join the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System. By joining the Group, India will be able to exchange information on such disasters through this network that predicts tsunamis up to 14 hours in advance.
From: NDTV
Comments related to the News, from Bytes For All forum:
Peter B writes:
Dear Colleagues
Since I have been working in the relief and development arena, now some thirty years, there are always calls to have better catastrophe warning systems. And there is a big hue and cry about this again in the wake of the current tsunami disaster. International donors are almost certain to give this a high priority and firms in the UK and Japan and France and the USA and others will be delighted to get paid to supply the advanced technology to make the system work - or at any rate part of it!
Please have someone tell me how many telephones were available in the various communities along some 10,000 km of coastline that have been terribly impacted by the tsunami. In order to be better prepared for another tsunami or other crisis, effective communications would be of both developmental value and of emergency value.
As the tsunami relief gains momentum, also please be aware that there will be all sorts of rip-off attempts, and these will detract from the real needs of the affected people and communities. After the 9/11 event in New York, there was much more rip-off than there should have been. It is normal, it always happens, but should not. Tr-Ac-Net, of which I am a co-founder in New York with Kris Dev in Chennai is addressing this issue, and would like to hear from anyone that learns of scams and rip-offs so that they can be "on the record' ... the first step in getting them stopped. Please send information to
tr-ac-net@afrifund.comI will send more contact information later.
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Kris Dev writes:
Atlast, after such a collosal tragedy, our Governments, Bureaucrats
and Scientists are trying to do things right.
But the tragedy is that for every sensible decision, we need a
calamity to take place.
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