Squabbling and inaction beset tsunami warning system: experts
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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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A satellite-alert system launches in quake-prone Japan that will instantly trigger tsunami and volcanic activity warnings by siren and radio to help speed evacuations. By the Associated Press.
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The catastrophic death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced had India and Sri Lanka been part of an international warning system designed to warn coastal
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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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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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Angry residents in Indonesia&#39;s Aceh have disabled a tsunami warning system after a false alarm spread panic in a province still traumatised by the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an official said on Thursday.
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With multiple nations putting forward projects for a tsunami-warning system, the United Nations said Wednesday it should set up the system and extend it globally, but the United States voiced doubts about the U.N. ability to run such a program.
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The Indian Ocean tsunami has pushed disaster early warning to the top of the agenda at a meeting of the world's small islands, potentially crowding out concerns about climate change and trade, some delegates say.
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Hyderabad, Dec 26: Officials of the National Geophysical Research Institute here have said that there is no reason for the people of coastal India to panic over the tremors that were felt along the coastline this morning.
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An early warning system would have made all the difference. Instead of being swept to their deaths by the Dec. 26 tsunami, tourists in Thailand and villagers in Sri Lanka could have been alerted to run for higher ground. Even Sumatrans near the epicenter might have recognized the danger posed by a coastal quake and dashed inland.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An ambitious plan to set up an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system is expected to dominate an upcoming gathering of leaders from stricken nations and world donors seeking to prevent a repeat of last week's carnage.
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The first of a planned network of tsunami early warning buoys is being installed in the Indian Ocean.
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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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Researchers are hoping to develop a network of ocean-floor and mobile sensors that would help detect tsunamis in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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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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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.
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Nations turn their attention to installing tsunami early warning systems, but do they really work?