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As nations in South and South-East Asia come to terms with the effects of last week’s tsunami, which claimed tens of thousand of lives, officials are calling for a tsunami alert system for the Indian Ocean to be set up.
Such a system would require technology, trained staff, and communications systems allowing coordinated responses across the region.
In this article, Bennett Richardson describes
A tsunami alert system was set up in the
The lack of an alert system is thought to have contributed to the high death toll in countries — such as