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TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1629Z 28 MAR 2005
WARNING... THIS EARTHQUAKE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE A WIDELY DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI IN THE OCEAN OR SEAS NEAR THE EARTHQUAKE. AUTHORITIES IN THOSE REGIONS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS POSSIBILITY AND TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION. THIS ACTION SHOULD INCLUDE EVACUATION OF COASTS WITHIN A THOUSAND KILOMETERS OF THE EPICENTER AND CLOSE MONITORING TO DETERMINE THE NEED FOR EVACUATION FURTHER AWAY.
But CNN has this in its report:
“Thailand issued a warning that the quake could bring a tsunami to its southern provinces.
“The warning, which was carried on national television, cautioned people in the six provinces to be careful and vigilant, but did not order evacuations.”
Are these coasts more than 1,000 km away? Need to check.
Are they evacuating Indonesian islands?
posted by TK @ 12:53
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Did you know that the death toll for the Big Tsunami was 4 women for every 1 man? Makes you wonder...
Oh and they did issue warnings (on TV, obviously everyone in these desolate countries have TV)
But they did not order any evacuation.
hey x- lady--where'd you see that number? i was reading penguin's "atlas of world women" or somesuch title today, and i learned that 99 percent of egypt's muslim women have undergone female genital mutilation. I feel insanely ignorant for placing fgm at a much, much lower rate in egypt (because even if that book is off, it's probably still a fuck of a lot higher than i'd imagined there).
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