Reply #9: I'm sure they will get the equipment now [View All]

but tsunamis are rarely a danger in the Indian Ocean. This isn't the best description, but one I found quickly.

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/cdroms/geohazards_v3/document/648001.htm
"Only a few tsunamis have been generated in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In the Atlantic Ocean, there are no subduction zones at the edges of plate boundaries to spawn such waves except small subduction zones under the Caribbean and Scotia arcs. In the Indian Ocean, however, the Indo-Australian plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian plate at its east margin. Therefore, most tsunamis generated in this area are propagated toward the southwest shores of Java and Sumatra, rather than into the Indian Ocean."

Even if they knew about the earthquake, the response isn't to go to higher ground in most of these areas. This was an anomaly in modern times...and many places don’t prepare for anomalies.

I'm sure this will change all that!