The world’s leading tsunami experts are in Paris for a week of meetings on creating a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean. A USA Today story on the conference paraphrases Patricio Bernal, executive secretary of the U.N. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission:
“Simple cards telling people to move to high ground after an earthquake would have saved thousands of lives Dec. 26, Bernal says.”
As Dr. Jerry Comcowich of the University of Hawaii said after reading this story: “Why can’t these people see that the media and especially radio are the best way to communicate tsunami warnings?”
We’ve been asking the same question for two months.
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