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Wow that would be great! The high number of casualties during the 2002 tsunami mostly was due to a lack of early alerting, as not enough tsunami buoys were depl

• IncreasePosts 2y ago
  I presume you mean 2004
• goku12 2y ago
  Like the other commenter, I assume you mean the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. The lack of early warning was not due to the lack of buoys, but due to the lack of public and institutional knowledge about Tsunamis itself. Few people had even heard of the word Tsunami (including much of the governments) and there were certainly none in the living memory. There were a few TV documentaries about Tsunamis in Japan, but few people had seen those either. Internet had just started penetrating these regions at that time and disaster preparedness was poor. Consequently, there were no tsunami buoys around at all. Many areas that suffered the waves had earlier felt the earthquake that caused it (including here in India) and the sea receded in some places. Almost no one was alarmed by this or understood what was to follow. Even the news media didn't initially understand what they were reporting. That situation has changed now. Sufficient buoys are deployed along with public warning systems. People are also much more sensitive to the warning signs. I don't think anybody will be caught by surprise like that in the future. That said, any new concepts and advancements are welcome. The more the merrier. PS: We're coming up on the 20th anniversary of that disaster - the 26th of this month. Please remember the more than 128K people that perished on that day. Some of them were younger than much of the HN audience. May the victims and the lessons of that day never be forgotten.