Forensics Plays Into Tsunami ID Effort
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Forensics experts were poring over fingerprints and dental records to identify victims from the Asian tsunami, hoping to get the easier matches out of the way before tackling the time-consuming process of DNA analysis.
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Thousands of bodies of tsunami victims are in Buddhist temples across southern Thailand. For many days before their graves were dug, they lay on the temples' concrete floors in 90-degree heat, which accelerated decomposition and complicated efforts to identify them. The scientists are relying on dental records and DNA to help their cause.
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Sri Lankans trying to come to terms with piles of corpses left by a tsunami may never know the actual death toll because of the disaster's unprecedented scale, different methods of counting and the politics of an ethnic war.
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Online journals or weblogs are helping people share information about the tsunami disaster.
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The identities of many Britons killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami begin to emerge as the death toll rises.
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In the wake of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis last week, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Conrad Lautenbacher has renewed his call for a Global Ocean Observing System that could patch together many governmentsâ stovepiped sensors.
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Scientists say that Padang, Indonesia, may well be hit by a tsunami within the next 30 years, and a private group is working to educate the public on how to respond.
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The net is proving useful to agencies seeking to gather resources quickly to help cope with the tsunami aftermath.
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An Israeli company plans to distribute free to Asian countries hit by last week's tsunami a device that uses land and water sensors to measure seismic activity and wave motion that could indicate tsunamis.
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A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday ordered  a DNA test to determine whether a couple claiming to be the  parents of a baby who survived last month's tsunami were really  his mother and father.
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Two U.S. forensics experts arrived in  Nepal on Sunday to help identify victims of last month's crash  of a helicopter chartered by conservation group WWF in which 24  people were killed, the U.S. embassy said.
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A tsunami warning system is now in place for Indian Ocean countries, but experts said Wednesday there is still room for improvement in methods to convey the alerts to coastal communities.
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The forensic science of processing and identifying the dead
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Interpol and 20 national police forces launched history's biggest disaster victim identification system Tuesday to unravel the mesh of forensic data from the bodies of more than 5,000 tsunami dead in Thailand.
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Sri Lankans of all castes and creeds are pulling together to try to salvage what remains of their lives, following a series of tsunami waves that devastated coastlines across Asia.
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Survivors from the gargantuan tsunami that swept across Asia will face a host of new threats in the coming days and weeks: viruses and bacteria in the water, diseases seeping from human remains, and the vulnerability to bugs and other predators that comes from having no shelter.
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A consortium of security vendors is trying to make it easier for emergency personnel to identify themselves at the scene of a disaster.