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Published online 4 January 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050103-1
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Tsunami alert plans accelerate
UN urges action and education while disaster is fresh in people's minds.
Scientists and policy-makers are stepping up efforts to build a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean following the catastrophic waves of 26 December.
Experts agree that a system that could detect underwater earthquakes and alert those on vulnerable coastlines might have saved some of the estimated 150,000 people killed by the tsunami that swamped Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and neighbouring countries.
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