Source: Chicago Tribune -- Dec 27, 10:15 PM KLIK IMEJAN Dec. 28--CHICAGO -- With a killer tsunami bearing down on Sri Lanka and India at airliner speeds, an effort to save thousands of lives came down to a handful of overworked employees in Hawaii trying to telephone government officials they did not know and did not know how to reach. For 40 years, governments around the Pacific Ocean have known the giant waves caused by massive undersea earthquakes could reach across thousands of miles of ocean and devastate coastal areas, and they had prepared accordingly. Not so around the Indian Ocean, where tens of thousands of people were killed by a wave hundreds of miles long that erupted from the ocean early Sunday morning. Technology had given scientists a warning of the potential danger, but they had no way to get it to the people in the wave's path. Only after the first waves hit Sri Lanka did workers at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Tsunami Warning Cent...
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