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By JOSEPH COLEMAN, Associated Press Writer
KOBE, Japan - An early warning system would have made all the difference. Instead of being swept to their deaths by the Dec. 26 tsunami, tourists in Thailand and villagers in Sri Lanka could have been alerted to run for higher ground. Even Sumatrans near the epicenter might have recognized the danger posed by a coastal quake and dashed inland.
The global push to set up such a warning network for the Indian Ocean and beyond won wide endorsement and an injection of funding ― $8 million ― at a U.N. conference on natural disasters that closed in Kobe, Japan, on Saturday with vows to never again be hit by such a calamity unprepared. |
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