Warning system helped spread quake warning
The initial parts of an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system that is not due until next year worked to alert governments in the region to the latest major earthquake and helped sound the all-clear ending fears of a killer wave.
Indian Ocean nations agreed in a Paris meeting earlier this month to establish the full warning system next year, but first steps were already underway, said John Harding of the United Nations’ International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.
