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Indonesian tsunami-monitoring system lacked basic equipment

Telephone line needed to relay warning signals was cut off in 2000.

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Tsunami researcher, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, SeattleDirector of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre, London, UK

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Giles, J., Marris, E. Indonesian tsunami-monitoring system lacked basic equipment. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news041229-4

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