Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011
JAKARTA — A tsunami alert system for Indian Ocean countries officially kicked off Wednesday, almost seven years after massive tsunami triggered by a major earthquake off Indonesia's Sumatra Island left at least 230,000 people dead or missing.
The system has been promoted by UNESCO and supported by Japan and the U.S., following the realization that the lack of a tsunami warning system contributed to the scale of the disaster.
Twenty-three countries participated
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