Bad Equipment Blamed in Tsunami Warnings
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Faulty equipment, poor communications and cumbersome bureaucracy are being blamed for the failure of nations around the Indian Ocean's rim to warn communities about to be hit by one of the world's most devastating natural disasters.
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NEW DELHI: Confusion prevailed over todayâs fresh tsunami warning by the home ministry with the science and technology ministry distancing itself from it, saying there was no official alert.
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A tsunami warning siren went off accidentally in Indonesia's Aceh province on Monday, causing residents to flee their homes and run to higher ground, officials said.
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Diarrhea, malaria, dengue fever, and  even meningitis and flu may be waiting to cause a second wave  of misery across Indian Ocean coastal areas devastated by  Sunday's tsunami, experts said on Thursday.
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Delays in delivering aid to survivors of Sunday&#39;s Indian Ocean tsunami catastrophe could cause thousands more deaths, aid agencies are warning.
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Tens of thousands of tsunami survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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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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More than a million fishermen in Sri Lanka's north-east may have lost their livelihoods in the  tsunami, experts say.
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Tens of thousands of residents fled coasts in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand after warnings of possible new tsunamis Thursday, and pilots in Indonesia dropped food
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Indochina Correspondent May Ying Welsh. PHUKET, Thailand : The Thai government will set up an inquiry into why the public was not given early warning of the tsunamis, which smashed into the kingdom&#39;s southern provinces.
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SYDNEY - Pressure built for an Indian Ocean tsunami-warning centre on Tuesday after frustrated scientists said they knew killer waves were speeding towards coastlines across Asia but was powerless to raise the alarm.
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The Indonesian meteorology agency  issued a tsunami warning on Wednesday after an undersea quake  at 6.6 strength on the Richter scale hit offshore East Timor.
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Tidal waves, or tsunami, often set off by undersea earthquakes, have caused several major disasters in coastal communities over the years.
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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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Angry residents in  Indonesia&#39;s Aceh have disabled a tsunami warning system after a  false alarm spread panic in a province still traumatized by the  deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an official said on Thursday.
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A lack of coordination in the relief effort for survivors of a deadly tsunami in south India has led to an excess of supplies in some villages while others lack the most basic necessities.
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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.