tsunami

Latest tsunami shows need for complete warning system: UN regional group

24 July 2006
Following last week’s tsunami that killed hundreds of people on the south-central coast of the Indonesian island of Java, the head of a United Nations regional development commission called today for more comprehensive coverage from the warning systems now being developed in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the devastating waves it created.
Food aid reaches Java

As UN aid is distributed in Indonesia, tsunami official focuses on warning system

20 July 2006
Expressing his condolences to Indonesia after this week’s deadly earthquake and resulting tsunami, a United Nations official stressed the importance today of disaster early warning systems, as emergency UN food assistance and other supplies were distributed to the tens of thousands displaced by Monday’s disaster that killed at least 500 people on the island of Java.

Annan ‘saddened’ by toll of latest tsunami; UN agency assesses warning system

19 July 2006
Expressing condolences for the hundreds killed by the latest tsunami to hit Indonesia, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today offered humanitarian and reconstruction assistance, as the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Agency (UNESCO) assessed the strengths and gaps in the Indian Ocean warning system revealed by the event.