tsunami warning system:::The US angle

The US did not detect the Indian Nuclear explotions. They would have
left a small siesmological signature. But a quake of 8.9 ritcher would
be detectable in any part of the world with sufficient accuracy(coz its
earth shaking power is 10000 times Hiroshima which runs into several
megatons i guess and that too the entire energy is dissipated in shaking
the earth and not into light or heat like an H-bomb or an A-bomb.)

The US system should have detected something at its first instance. Well
this is a mail i got from my friend and i post it here

Circulate this to as many as u can


US Officials detected Quake but there was no alert
system................. Do you also think so...................Is it
essential to have some mechanized system ........... to save few lives
if not all

Just read this ..............abstracts of article appeared in Economic
Times.....dated 28th Dec 04  may be we would know what US is.............

"US Officials who detected a massive earthquake off Asia's Coast on
Saturday tried frantically to warn the deadly wall of water was coming,
the head of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said on Sunday.  But
there was no official alert system in the region because such
catastrophes only happen there about once every 700 years, said Charles
McCreery, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's center in Honolulu.

Now just read the important part of the article........

"We tried to do what we could" McCreery said, "we don't have contacts in
our address book for anybody in that part of the world" ...........do
you think in a country of 100 + crores populations one needs address
book........... don't we have a Prime Minister, Who could have been
informed...........don't we have our embassy in US......

"We actually issued a bulletin about the quake but it only went to the
countries in the pacific ....that subscribe .... And that would include
Australia and Indonesia"

...........Just think thru..........after advancement of Civilisation
from stone age to present Revolutionary Communication Age.........  do
Mankind have to wait for some subscription to save lives.............
Just because US has invested in these monitoring systems......US felt it
not necessary to save lives of Indians and Sri-lankans who have been
worstly effected .........so many mothers lost children and many
children lost their parents isn't it a sheer poor mindset that US
carries .....

"they were unable to reach the thousands in the countries most severely
affected including India, Thailand and Sri Lanka because none had
tsunami warning mechanism or tidal gauges to alert people, he
said...............................just think thru again..... do we need
such mechanized version to save lives .........we have live incident of
GANESHA DRINKING MILK ........ and this news was spread across India in
just half hour.................. Tsunami had given around 1.5 hr
..........don't you think we had enough time for saving many lives
..........think of those Children, Old age people and not the least our
Air force personnel's who lost their lives................

Now just read the last note .............this will shatter you
................

"A warning center such as those used around the pacific could have saved
thousands of lives, Waverly person of the US Geological Survey's
National Earthquake information Center, said most of those people could
have been saved if they had a tsunami warning system in place or tide
gauges......he said ......and I think this will be a lesson to them.."

Just try to find out Answer..............
1)     Had US tried to inform Indian Admin, how many lives could have
been saved from 8000+ till now...
2)     Is technology a monopoly to save someone lives..............
3)     What lesson is US trying to teach us and that too at cost of so
many lives....
4)     Is US trying sell these mechanized products to us by not saving
lives........and boosting its economy
5)     Are we dependent on others to save our countrymen......
6)     At this point we are trying to provide aid to srilanka and others
inspite of fact that India too is suffering and ................US could
not inform us as their address book was empty????  What a Pitty>>>>>>


regards
Laks

Karthick Jayaraman wrote:

> hi iluindia,
>
> It is high time, we have some perfect warning systems for natural
> diseaster's. The government is now pushing hard for a tsunami warning
> system. I am wondering, if we have ignored many such diseasters, 
> probably by
> assuming it wont occur here.
>
> Can we discuss all the danger's from nature's fury, and collate 
> information
> on the warning systems for them?
>
> karthick
>
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