Text 7270, 28 rader
Skriven 2005-01-10 09:03:40 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
   Kommentar till text 7179 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Thailand
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 JH> Let's get a few things straight here.  First, a preliminary warning about
 JH> potential tsunami activity was issued, and everybody ignored it, so this
 JH> tragedy is the fault of those governements at least in part.

From what we hear, a warning was issued but ignored since they didn't want
to scare the tourists and even if they had listned, how should they do to warn
every town and beach in such a big area?
Very new videos from Malaysia shows that the fist quake did raze a lot of
buildings and when they tryed to rescue those who got traped the flood-wave
came and swept the remains away in matters of minute's.

 JH> Secondly,
 JH> statistically, there is just as great a chance for a wave to hit the
 JH> Dominican Republic as there is for one to hit Indonesia again. Such an
 JH> event could happen at anytime and anyplace in either the Atlantic or the
 JH> Pacific.

I know. It's even more dangerous to drive a car.

 JH> And third, the water didn't get 20 miles inland anywhere in
 JH> Indonesia.  Even the tidal wave from Krakatoa, the largest ever recorded
 JH> in history only went 4.5 miles inland.

Sorry. I wrote 20 m and that's about 22 yards, not miles.

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