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Old December 31st, 2004, 06:34 PM
R Steenerson
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I would guess that a warning system could have helped getting some people
off the beaches onto higher ground but, there would probably have been just
as many skeptics out there not believing that anything serious would happen
or spend a lot of time trying to save their material goods. People have a
sort of knack for not accepting that a certain situation is dangerous.
For a warning system to work, the police would need to be involved,
shutting down roads, and lowlying areas. There was one country where a
train was knocked off of the track and most of the people on it died. Might
have been Sri Lanka. I do know of any kind of warning system that would
have foresaw that.


"Chabon" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:40:15 +0700, "Sandy Cruden"
wrote:


wrote in message ...
JosephP wrote:
Reading the news headlines the tragedy gets worse and worse as the
numbers
go from 4000, 8000 ... 15000 and rising, mostly in Indonesia, India,

and
Sri
Lanka


Noone has so far talked about Myanmar (Burma). How is the damage there

?
Seen from the map they must have been hit just as hard as Phuket/Phi

Phi.


knut

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20 reported dead in Myanmar this morning on Thai TV.

Sandy


Here an article from Irrawadi online:

Tidal Waves Kill Dozen in Southern Burma
By Aye Aye Win/AP Writer/Rangoon
December 27, 2004

Tidal waves induced by a massive earthquake killed about 12 people
when a bridge collapsed on the southern tip of Burma, fishing industry
officials said Monday.
The deaths made Burma the ninth country to be struck by waves sent
thundering across the Bay of Bengal by the most powerful earthquake in
40 years when it hit Sunday off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra
island.
The deaths occurred Sunday at Kawthaung, opposite the city of Ranong
in southern Thailand, said the officials, who were linked to the
Fishing Trawlers Association and spoke on condition of anonymity.
They said the fate of fishing trawlers out at sea at the time of the
tidal waves was not yet known.
Rigs in the Andman Sea, operated by UNOCAL, Total and Petronas
companies, shut down their natural oil pipelines for about three hours
after the earthquake “for safety reasons but there is no facility
damage to the rigs,” an official from one of the rigs said.
Reports in Burma’s state controlled media made no mention of damage or
casualties from the 9.0-magnitude earthquake, which killed more than
13,300 people along the coastlines of Southeast and South Asia.
State-controlled television reports warned that aftershocks were
likely to follow for three days and warned the public to take
precautionary measures such as not standing under tall buildings.
The military-run regime rarely provides details of natural or man-made
disasters in the country.