tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877698188774561460.post5596092454091073343..comments2023-11-06T17:59:14.655+02:00Comments on Eco R Geo: Asia Marks 10th Anniversary of Tsunami antixronoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17321757470762094126noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877698188774561460.post-44304502541244687842014-12-26T22:37:41.592+02:002014-12-26T22:37:41.592+02:00Marking 10 years since Indian Ocean tsunami, UN sa...Marking 10 years since Indian Ocean tsunami, UN says world better prepared for natural disasters...<br /><br /> It has been ten years since a massive tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean killing more than 200,000 people and devastating coastline communities from Indonesia to Somalia, and yet the world today is much better prepared to mitigate such disasters, senior United Nations officials have declared.<br /><br />“Ten years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, the world has taken significant measures to make the world a safer place against disasters,” confirmed Margareta Wahlström, the head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), in a press release issued today to mark the anniversary.<br /><br />“We now have more efficient early warning systems and better evacuation procedures in place,” she added. “There is also greater understanding and awareness globally of the broad damage that disasters can inflict on our societies.”<br /><br />The world's worst recorded natural disaster hit the Asia Pacific region in December 2004, claiming the lives of 227,000 people and leaving the livelihoods of some 1.4 million survivors in tatters. While the immediate economic loss caused by the event was estimated at $9.9 billion, the tsunami has also inflicted long-term environmental and development harm as salt water contaminated the land, wiping out agriculture and damaging forests and ecosystems...................http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=49691#.VJ3GZcw7I<br />26/12/14Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com