Subject: Swedish newspaper: TSUNAMI WARNING WAS STOPPED
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The experts got the news around 8:00 am on Sunday morning
local time. An hour later, the first massive wave struck.
But the experts started to discuss the economic impacts
when they were discussing if a tsunami warning should be
made. The main argument against such a warning was that
there have not been any floods in 300 years. Also, the
experts believed the Indonesian island Sumatra would be a
"cushion" for the southern coast of Thailand. The experts
also had bad information; they thought the tremor was
8.1. A similar earthquake occurred in the same area in
2002 with no flooding at all.

<snip>

We finally decided not to do anything because the tourist
season was in full swing. The hotels were 100% booked
full. What if we issued a warning, which would have led
to an evacuation, and nothing had happened. What would be
the outcome? The tourist industry would be immediately
hurt. Our department would not be able to endure a
lawsuit...<snip>

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My only comment here would be that if these
experts believed they would hurt the tourist
industry by calling out an alarm and it turned
out to be false, what do they think will happen
to the tourist industry now?

Posted by cliss on Tue Dec-28-04 03:41 PM

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Money trumps all concerns.

Posted by RandomKoolzip on Tue Dec-28-04 03:44 PM

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