Warning system might have reduced tsunami toll
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Thousands of lives could have been spared if warnings had alerted civilians to head inland after a huge undersea earthquake in Indonesia, Asian officials said Monday.
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The warning system worked perfectly. From sensors far offshore, Japanese meteorologists detected a tsunami headed toward the southern island of Ishigaki in March 2002 and quickly warned residents of the possible danger.
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Developing the scientific potential of poor nations could reduce the scale of disasters like the Asian tsunami, researchers said on Thursday.
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Nations turn their attention to installing tsunami early warning systems, but do they really work?
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A global tsunami warning system to get critical information to people in the path of the potentially deadly waves was approved on Wednesday as a top priority for the world's climate experts.
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KOBE, Japan  - As the Asian tsunami focuses world  attention on natural disasters, experts on Wednesday called for  a global early warning system for all such catastrophes as soon  as possible.
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The death toll from the Asian tsunami in Burma may be higher than official figures suggest, the UN says.
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Armies of officials are tabulating the deaths caused by the tsunami that struck a dozen countries in Asia and Africa last weekend. The grim task is often imprecise.
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Water supplies on some Indian Ocean islands may have been ruined for years or decades by salt water from the tsunami.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- With workers still finding bodies under mud-caked rubble a month after a tsunami, Indonesia's Health Ministry revised its casualty count yesterday, lowering confirmed deaths to 96,000 but raising the number of missing, and presumed dead, to 132,000.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations put  the latest death toll in Asia's tsunami at around 150,000 and  warned it could still soar as relief workers were confronted by  huge devastated areas without roads, bridges and airstrips.
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Across nations and religions there has been a search for explanations of why the tsunami killed some and not others.
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Caribbean and Atlantic coastlines &#151; not just the Indian Ocean's tsunami-ravaged shores &#151; would benefit from a tsunami warning system like the one in the Pacific, says the chief of the U.S. weather research agency.
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Thailand will set up a panel to find  out why no warnings of the deadly tsunami were issued, which  might have saved thousands of lives, Prime Minister Thaksin  Shinawatra said Saturday.
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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.
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Nearly two years after the tsunami, a regional warning system is beset by squabbling and inaction, officials and experts say, as individual countries instead scramble to implement their own schemes.
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PORT BLAIR, DECEMBER 30: The tsunami death toll might not have been as astronomical as it was thought to be in the Andaman and Nicobar Islandsâthe numbers have begun to decrease as dramatically as it climbed.