July 19, 2006
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Oh no, not again! This time it’s Pangandaran off Java’s southern coast.What happened to the early-warning system that was hyped up after the last tragedy?
But despite a push after
that disaster to establish a tsunami early warning system, there was not one
working in
Monday’s quake struck, according to an official at the geophysics agency in“We still don’t have a tsunami early warning system in place,” said
the official.Both the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in
and the Japan Meteorological Agency issued tsunami alerts for parts of
It seems so ridiculous to read that Japan and Hawaii read the signs and
sent out an alert, yet Indonesia found no way to do the same for her own people?!Something can’t be right here.Latest report 530 dead.
Initial stories reported a handful dead and I thought at first it was one of those things.54,000 displaced! Indonesian media voice frustration and Vice President Jusuf Kalla said the
government would build an early warning system in Java and
other areas in Indonesia in three years. In the meantime…?God have mercy.
