Asian tsunami alert system backed
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Nations agree the UN should begin work on an tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean.
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The U.S. weather agency didn't have the phone numbers nor staff to alert all Indian Ocean coastal countries when it saw the first signs that tsunamis could be heading their way, its top official said Thursday. He cautioned that the Caribbean and Atlantic also lack an early-warning system.
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Indonesia plans to set up a tsunami warning system to prevent a repeat of the deaths caused by the Indian Ocean disaster.
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Top News News, New Delhi,India made it clear Thursday that it was ready to join a US-proposed coordination group to tackle the tsunami disaster in South and Southeast Asia.
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Indonesia's tsunami Wednesday is much smaller than the 2004 disaster, but the response shows the country's new warning systems are working.
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The following aid agencies are accepting contributions for assistance that they or their affiliates will provide for those affected by the earthquake and tidal waves in Asia.
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A tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean could be running by next year, a UN agency says.
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Delegates at a conference in Thailand decided Saturday to create several regional tsunami warning centers around southern Asia that would protect the area from killer waves, a U.N. official said.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States dispatched disaster specialists and pledged an initial $15 million Monday to Asian countries struck by a massive earthquake and tsunamis.
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The extraordinary loss of life from Sunday's earthquake and tsunami waves is prompting Asian governments to consider developing a more comprehensive and effective warning system.
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Nations turn their attention to installing tsunami early warning systems, but do they really work?
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The major obstacles to creating an  early-warning system that could have saved many victims of  Asia's massive tsunami are not money and technology, but  poverty and political and cultural division besetting the  region it hit, experts and officials said on Monday.
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Scientists say the death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced if India and Sri Lanka had been part of an international system designed to warn coastal communities about potentially deadly waves.
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COLOMBO, Sep 19 (IPS) - A tsunami alert, last week, sent thousands of Sri  Lankans living along the coasts of this island nation fleeing  inland, but authorities were exultant that the early warning  systems installed after the disastrous Dec. 26, 2004 Indian Ocean  tsunami were working.
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A tsunami detector built from ordinary PCs linked over a peer-to-peer network has been demonstrated in Austria.
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The Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok has unveiled a state-of-the-art mobile wireless network that can be used to establish communication for emergency workers after a disaster.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - The extraordinary loss of life from Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunami waves is prompting Asian governments to consider developing a more comprehensive and effective warning system.