We fully support the efforts of the international community in response to the urgent needs of the communities severely affected by the tsunami and welcome the United Nations flash appeal for the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

If the generous support to the appeal for the tsunami affected areas is excluded, only 24 per cent of requirements had been met for the rest of the appeals.

In the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami, the international community generously contributed resources for early recovery through the flash appeal.

Policy recommendations representing major paradigm shifts in thinking are flooding the global policy stage.

On 24 January, the independent expert also issued a separate press release commending the generous international response to the tsunami crisis and urging the international community not to forget the effects of the tsunami on the eastern coast of Africa, primarily Somalia.

Welcoming also the launching of the Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami 2005 flash appeal by the Secretary General to respond to the urgent and immediate needs of communities severely affected by the earthquake and tsunami and the outcome of the Ministerial Level Meeting on Humanitarian Assistance to Tsunami affected Communities held in Geneva on 11 January 2005,

For instance, while donors provided 82 per cent of the 1.26 billion dollars requested in the United Nations appeal for the Indian Ocean tsunami, the appeal to help drought victims in Djibouti brought in only 5.3 per cent of the 7.5 million dollars required.

I have therefore called for a global warning system, covering not only tsunamis but also other natural disasters, such as storm surges and cyclones.

In the immediate aftermath of the tsunami, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs facilitated the preparation and launch of an inter agency flash appeal covering the urgent needs of some 5 million people for six months.

The United Nations flash appeal and pledges by Members of the United Nations, together with the involvement of United Nations agencies and non governmental organizations, will surely mitigate the effects of the tsunami.

The tsunami in December 2004 exposed the vulnerability to tidal waves.

A detection and monitoring system for tsunamis is necessary but not sufficient to reduce a tsunami disaster.

The Secretary General also attended the special ASEAN leaders' meeting on the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami and, on behalf of the United Nations, made urgent appeals to the international community for post disaster reconstruction.

And as a kid I grew up very close to here, and one of my favorite things to do was to cycle along by the side of the railway waiting for the great big express trains to roar past.

Welcoming also the appointment by the Secretary General of a Special Coordinator to coordinate international emergency relief operations in support of national emergency programmes of countries affected by the tsunami disaster and covered by the flash appeal,

We also call on the international community to make every effort to ensure the setting up of the Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system, as well as the worldwide multihazard early warning system, as soon as possible.

Now, with the current tsunami disaster relief aid being given with calls for greater accountability, affected South Asian nations will have to demonstrate integrity, transparency and accountability in their reconstruction activities.

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Indian Ocean tsunami

Completely in the safety of a studio, and yet with the green screen we can have some moving image that a skydiver took, and put in the sky moving and the clouds whizzing by.

Now, I want to connect this back, though, to the tsunami, because one of the great things about the tsunami in terms of the blogosphere's coverage, not in terms of the tsunami itself is that it really did represent a genuine bottom up phenomenon.

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There was massive flooding in Indonesia.

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The tsunami alert was cancelled.

The tsunami disaster has underscored the need to establish an integrated tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean region.

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New Zealand will also support international efforts to assess tsunami risk and enhanced worldwide tsunami warning coverage.

BIRMINGHAM The dramatic events that unfolded at Japan s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after last year s tsunami are commonly referred to as the Fukushima disaster. We need look no further than this description to begin to understand the significant misconceptions that surround nuclear energy.

The independent expert joined an 11 January press release of United Nations human rights mandate holders calling for focused attention on most vulnerable tsunami survivors and their full participation in rebuilding.

Tunisia calls for the strengthening of world solidarity, the benefits of which were most recently manifested in the international efforts to alleviate the enormous damage caused by both the tsunami disaster and hurricane Katrina.

(c) Integrity, transparency and accountability in the management of foreign aid. There have also been calls for better accountability measures in development aid, especially in the current international relief efforts for the tsunami disaster in South Asia.

Indonesia earthquake tsunami hundreds killed

The number of deaths caused by the earthquake and tsunami is 832.

The apparent lack of a tsunami warning siren in Palu, even though a warning had been in effect, is likely to have contributed to the loss of life.

While Singapore itself was unaffected by the tsunamis, some Singaporeans lost their lives, while others are still missing.

The tsunami followed a 7.5 magnitude earthquake.

Livelihoods destroyed by the tsunami have not been restored.

In amateur footage shared on social media a man on the upper floor of a building can be heard shouting frantic warnings of the approaching tsunami to people on the street below.