On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:27:26 -0000, Alan LeHun wrote:

As for creating a Tsunami Warning System for the Indian Ocean after an
extreme 1 in 700 year event, I'm not so sure it is necessary or viable.

Well clearly, it was necessary and I don't understand why it isn't
viable. Some experts have thought it necessary, too - there was a
recent conference on this very subject and the participants must be
kicking themselves that it didn't take place a few years ago with,
possibly, a warning system up and running by now. The Pacific Tsunami
warning system is an established model to base it on.

Are deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis really 1 in 700 year events? I
wouldn't have thought the conference would even have been suggested if
that were so. Or are we talking about 9.0 earthquakes in the Indian
Ocean? Which is not the same thing at all, is it?

--
Dave