Pm - Wave Alert Works

[astral]

I do love the self-congratulatory headline in Wednesday's Bangkok Post.

Yes the system may have worked and thousands of people fled for their lives,

but the point is that THERE WAS NO WAVE!!

Only a minor distrubance in sea level.

In this area earthquakes are a part of life.

If the alarm goes off everytime there is a quake, it will soon be ignored,

so that when the next big one comes there will be a similar loss of life.

The story about the Boy who cried Wolf, has a parallel in Thai culture, but the predator is a Tiger.

What a pity the PM has not heard of it, and understood the meaning.

[lopburi3]

I disagree completely. This was a huge earthquake and not at all common in this or any other region. The Tsunami alert was international and not a Thai cry wolf.

The point is that there could well have been a tidal wave and this time life saving actions were taken in time to save lives. And I do congratulate those that took the action.

[jef]

I do love the self-congratulatory headline in Wednesday's Bangkok Post.

Yes the system may have worked and thousands of people fled for their lives,

but the point is that THERE WAS NO WAVE!!

Only a minor distrubance in sea level.

In this area earthquakes are a part of life.

If the alarm goes off everytime there is a quake, it will soon be ignored,

so that when the next big one comes there will be a similar loss of life.

The story about the Boy who cried Wolf, has a parallel in Thai culture, but the predator is a Tiger.

What a pity the PM has not heard of it, and understood the meaning.

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Sure, tsunamis only happen +- every 100 years, so why all the fuzz?

The Pacific tsunami warning system alerts on earthquakes of +7 on Richter scale, this one was 8.7 and just a small aftershok, no ploblem