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Montage of satellite images taken by DigitalGlobe shows Kalutara, south-western coast of #SriLanka, 40km south of #Colombo. Lower image taken at 10:20 IST on 26 Dec 2004, as #Tsunami2004 #IndianOceanTsunami hit without any local warning, killing ~35,000 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indi… 
One of the most memorable cartoons on #Tsunami2004, by Jim Morin, cartoonist of @MiamiHerald, summed up that day's monumental failure of publicly communicating an early warning about on-coming killer waves. I reflected on it for @SciDevNet one year later: scidev.net/global/opinion…
International warnings about #Tsunami2004 were received by #lka govt agencies but *not relayed locally* to enable coastal evacuation to save lives. Science & Tech Min Dr Tissa Vitharana later infamously defended govt failure saying "it was a holiday". scidev.net/global/opinion…
A Thread on the "Seventh" Wave: On this day in 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunamis struck. They killed 227K people in 14 countries; many perished from deprivation later. Enough time has past to answer a basic question: why did they die? It is not always obvious. #tsunami2004 1/
I have spent the last year researching and writing a book trying to find the commonalities across centuries of disasters, rather than viewing them as distinct or a surprise. It is obvious disasters are no longer random or rare. Hence the title, The Devil Never Sleeps. 2/
It is too simple to believe those by the water died and those further away survived. Some of that is true. But we study disasters to also challenge conventional wisdom so we might do better, so we actually know why that person died and that one didn't. 3/
