EarthQuake & tsunamis

[prathapml]

just wakes from its sleep once in a decade lolz.

haha... very true! No real co-operation at all in that association.

@DL

hmm... the US geologists tried to warn...

But its the ocean-rim countries that should have been concerned and alerted others.

[mark]

@prathapml I don't doubt that there must have been many others who were in the same boat as the American geologists. I can't imagine how panicked they were when they saw their seismometers going off the board and not being able to get the message out. With the number of faults that run around the Pacific rim, there must be dozens of geological organizations with setups that caught the event. You've got to know that Japan would be loaded down with seismometers. Any studied volcano would have seismometers and there are a number of volcanos around there.

The basic and unfortunate conclusion of all this is that given any catastrophic event in that region (and undoubtedly many others), there is no system in place to quickly disseminate emergency warnings. One system would cover all incidents. Any warning could be pumped into it and then directed to the need areas.

For the people directly involved, the tsunami is a nightmare. For the rest of us, it is a test.