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…
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