Nothing in December 2004. Siren,
Sirens blared warnings that police moved people around the Indian Ocean along
the coast, as a strong earthquake off the coast of North, who led Indonesia is
afraid of the destructive tsunami.
Damage was light, and big waves is
never due to earthquake on Wednesday as nearly eight years, when a wall of
water roars at sugrobam and the Indian Ocean in coastal communities in 13
countries without warning.
"Reports of people in panic,
but there was little damage."We need to verify the security directly, but
"Eko Budiman, Deputy Head of the emergency measures, the reduction of
mentioned at the airport in Medan, North Sumatra, difficulties with the
epicenter on the island of Simeulu.
Warning and evacuation means
important testing as a regional system of past with him after the earthquake
and the tsunami of 2004, which is around the Indian Ocean, including 170,000
people in Northern Indonesia only 230,000 people.
However, the opportunity can prevent
accidents where they were stuck streets with people trying to flee this time as
an early warning system, in particular in the province of Aceh in Indonesia.
The simple message is in critical
condition after their impossible, said Keith Loveard, risk for those with time,
head analyst at consulting the Jakarta security company Concord.
"Worked to a certain extent
..." Tsunami warning system. " While there is an awareness of the
need to improve in 2004, to strengthen awareness campaigns to the public and
Governments.
Accidents in 2004, swept in with
sudden Ferocity. Hotels and beaches on the southwest coast of Thailand is full
of tourists and people holiday Christmas went Marina Beach in Chennai, India,
when the waves hit.
Composed of seismographic stations
and deep-water sensors, the tsunami warning in June 2006, 17 months in advance
agreed at the United Nations Conference on Japan's tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
If an earthquake, the data is sent
to warn the Pacific Tsunami Center in Hawaii and Japan Meteorological Agency,
in coordination with the national tsunami centres in this region.
15-20 minutes to analyze the
earthquake and tsunami, watch out for the Government and public opinion around
the Indian Ocean.
Tell the Nations with their own data
of citizens in many ways-news radio, television and Sirens and speakers mosques
in use.
Select the Thailand national
disaster prevention Centre coordinates in Bangkok with its six provinces on the
Andaman coast. The system includes clearly marked trails, Sirens and sea buoys
tide monitor.
Wednesday, the center of tsunamis in
the six provinces in the Southwest and tourists, is a warning to residents and
patients evacuated to higher priorities.
"The Hotel is very good, the
staff were very good," said the man on Karon beach in Phuket to stay.
"they looked very quickly, so we're quite confident. "
"PLÜNDERER WE FLY."
In India, the authorities in the
countries of Eastern Europe and the more the Andaman and Nicodemus bar Island,
away from the coast. Held, warned police in Southern Chennai.
However, in Sri Lanka, many people
do not want to move.
"I'm still waiting, because
otherwise will fly," said Sivalogan Subramanium, a former banker.
The other evacuated were destroyed,
but saw soon after all that they lost when the community on the island of South
Asia tsunami of 2004 has been a year.
"We are wasting our time like
you say that one comes," Daly said Silva, sought refuge in a Buddhist
temple. "Not everything in the wake of the recent tsunami we." as
they say, is that the tsunami has brought us.
The magnitude 8.6 Wednesday and its
buildings shook replica and nerves around the Indian Ocean, but authorities
reconsider the sigh of relief could not be worse.
Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary General of
the Association of Nations of Asian Nations (ASEAN), said that the 10-nation
bloc catastrophe that is better prepared to face, in 2004.
"The work is all the devices
for the detection of tsunamis in the Indian Ocean and all the capitals are
cautious," he said