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UN warning on tsunami threat
31.07.2006 18:23
Indian Ocean states need to revamp bureaucracies and prioritise the education of coastal communities in survival techniques when facing a tsunami threat, the United Nations said today.
Experts warned a conference on the Indonesian island of Bali discussing the development of an Indian Ocean early-warning system that while it was crucial to develop technology to detect tsunamis, community self-preparedness was equally important. "An earthquake that occurs close to a coastline that produces a tsunami could send a wave that arrives minutes before any official warning is issued," said Patricio Bernal, a senior official of Unesco, the UN's science agency. "Countries in the Indian Ocean must give priority to helping coastal communities protect themselves in the event of a tsunami."
People should be taught how to evacuate once the earth starts moving, what to take and where to go. Sue Williams, a Unesco spokeswoman, told the Guardian the earthquake off the south coast of Java on July 17 which resulted in a tsunami that killed more than 600 people "brought things into focus and underlined the urgency of the work that has yet to be done". No warnings reached the Java coast despite officials receiving seismic data that indicated a tsunami was highly probable. Thousands of people saved themselves because they had learned the tsunami indicators following the December 2004 tsunami off Sumatra. The tsunami killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries.
Since that disaster, 28 Indian Ocean nations have started to develop warning systems although most are focusing on putting detection instruments in the sea rather than educating people. Bill Clinton, the UN's special envoy on the Indian Ocean tsunami, told the meeting: "Address the last mile in the warning system at the national level." The UN has set up a consortium including UN agencies and the Red Cross and Red Crescent to help. Indonesia's research and technology minister, Kusmayanto Kadiman, admitted today that Indonesia's current warning system is ineffective.
"The most valuable lesson we got from [that tsunami] was that we relied too much on a very bureaucratic structure," he told Reuters. "We send the information to governors and mayors but these individuals are not on 24-hour alert." Ms Williams said it will take tens of millions of pounds from each government and a couple of years to have national systems fully functional. "It's a very big complex process where you're not only dealing with high technology but human nature; teaching them what to do and helping them to do it," she said. "It's not easy to persuade people to leave their homes and livelihoods exposed in situations that are uncertain."
31.07.2006 18:23
Indian Ocean states need to revamp bureaucracies and prioritise the education of coastal communities in survival techniques when facing a tsunami threat, the United Nations said today.
Experts warned a conference on the Indonesian island of Bali discussing the development of an Indian Ocean early-warning system that while it was crucial to develop technology to detect tsunamis, community self-preparedness was equally important. "An earthquake that occurs close to a coastline that produces a tsunami could send a wave that arrives minutes before any official warning is issued," said Patricio Bernal, a senior official of Unesco, the UN's science agency. "Countries in the Indian Ocean must give priority to helping coastal communities protect themselves in the event of a tsunami."
People should be taught how to evacuate once the earth starts moving, what to take and where to go. Sue Williams, a Unesco spokeswoman, told the Guardian the earthquake off the south coast of Java on July 17 which resulted in a tsunami that killed more than 600 people "brought things into focus and underlined the urgency of the work that has yet to be done". No warnings reached the Java coast despite officials receiving seismic data that indicated a tsunami was highly probable. Thousands of people saved themselves because they had learned the tsunami indicators following the December 2004 tsunami off Sumatra. The tsunami killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries.
Since that disaster, 28 Indian Ocean nations have started to develop warning systems although most are focusing on putting detection instruments in the sea rather than educating people. Bill Clinton, the UN's special envoy on the Indian Ocean tsunami, told the meeting: "Address the last mile in the warning system at the national level." The UN has set up a consortium including UN agencies and the Red Cross and Red Crescent to help. Indonesia's research and technology minister, Kusmayanto Kadiman, admitted today that Indonesia's current warning system is ineffective.
"The most valuable lesson we got from [that tsunami] was that we relied too much on a very bureaucratic structure," he told Reuters. "We send the information to governors and mayors but these individuals are not on 24-hour alert." Ms Williams said it will take tens of millions of pounds from each government and a couple of years to have national systems fully functional. "It's a very big complex process where you're not only dealing with high technology but human nature; teaching them what to do and helping them to do it," she said. "It's not easy to persuade people to leave their homes and livelihoods exposed in situations that are uncertain."
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