indian ocean tsunami

• Comparing Visual Framing in Newspapers: Hurricane Katrina Versus Tsunami

Method The purpose of this inquiry was to identify a consistent set of frames to determine how two U.S. newspapers visually covered the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Hurricane Katrina disasters. [...] images of those who survived the incidents and relief work being done on their behalf were coded as exhibiting the lives-saved frame. * Pragmatic Frame The pragmatic frame included images that showed the reality of the disaster in physical terms. Portrayal of the Dead All images were analyzed based on these dimensions: * Use of camera shots that imbue pictures with social meanings18 * Bodies were covered or left for open viewing * Faces were visible to viewers * Pages where the images appeared * Size of the published image The use of camera shots was coded as aerial, full, long, mid and c...

• Newspaper Research Journal
• Vol. 30 Nbr. 1, January 2009

• Preparing for natural disasters: Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System to become operational in 2006.

A tsunami warning system for the Indian Ocean may become operational as early as next summer, according to an expert familiar with the plans. "What ...

• National Defense
• Vol. 90 Nbr. 624, November 2005

• Indian Ocean Tsunami: One Year Later - Mourners Gather to Honor Dead

PHUKET, Thailand Amid Christmas lights strung along the beachfront, a cluster of mourners bowed their heads toward the ocean at dusk Saturday and offered prayers for the hundreds of thousands killed a year ago in the Indian Ocean tsunami. On a nearby beach, Thailand's Moken sea gypsy tribe banged drums and chanted as offerings of candles, flowers and incense wrapped in banana leaves were pushed out to a gently lapping sea in a ceremony to ward off evil spirits.

• The Columbian
• December 28, 2005

• Efficient Responses to Catastrophic Risk

Other catastrophic risks, besides earthquakes such as the one that caused the recent tsunami, include natural epidemics (the 1918-1919 Spanish influenza epidemic killed between twenty and forty million people), nuclear or biological attacks by terrorists, certain types of lab accidents (including one discussed later in this Article), and abrupt global warming. A combination of educating the residents of low-lying coastal areas about the warning signs of a tsunami (tremors and a sudden recession in the ocean); establishing a warning system involving emergency broadcasts, telephoned warnings, and air raid-type sirens; and improving emergency response systems would have saved many of the people killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami, probably at a total cost below any reasonable estimate of t...

• Chicago Journal of International Law
• Vol. 6 Nbr. 2, January 2006

• Five Years After Indian Ocean Tsunami, Millions of Survivors Assisted and Moving On with Their Lives

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Eric Porterfield of the American Red Cross, +1-202-701- 3309, porterfielde@usa.redcross.org

• U.S. Newswire
• December 15, 2009

• Relief Recipients Say Life is Far From Normal as One-Year Anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Approaches; Despite Hardships, Affected Families Recognize Organizations for Service Excellence.

SAN FRANCISCO -- While massive initial relief efforts were successful in delivering aid to millions of people affected by the Indian Ocean Tsunami, th...

• Business Wire
• December 06, 2005

• Un: Pakistan Flood a Megadisaster

Watch AP video of the disaster g ONLINE at wvgazette.com ISLAMABAD - The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million - more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said Monday.

• Charleston Gazette
• August 10, 2010

• Tetra Tech and International Resources Group Joint Venture Awarded Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System Development Project.

PASADENA, Calif. -- Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTEK) announced today that its joint venture with International Resources Group (IRG) was awarded a two-y...

• Business Wire
• August 09, 2005

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ZHOUQU, China -- Rescuers lifted muddy bodies into trucks, and aid convoys choked the road into the remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,300 were missing Monday from landslides caused by heavy rain that has flooded swaths of Asia and spread misery to millions. In Pakistan, the United Nations said the government's estimate of 13.8 million people affected by the country's worst-ever floods exceeded the combined total of three recent megadisasters -- the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• August 11, 2010

• Salesforce.com Community Comes Together to Help Victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster; $600,000 Raised by salesforce.com, Employees, Customers, Friends, Partners and Family.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) and the salesforce.com/foundation, the leaders in integrating philanthropy and business, today announced th...

• Business Wire
• January 15, 2005