[LINK] Re: Tsunami Warnings all about politics and cooperation

[Howard Lowndes]

...and the risk of tsunami in Canberra is...?

I think that with the airport elevation at 1888' it would be a _big_ 
tsunami accompanied by massive global warming :)

Tom Worthington wrote:
> I wrote Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:44:07 +1100:
> 
>> Perhaps we should bypass the usual approach and build an Internet 
>> style, Internet based warning system? ...
> 
> 
> I now get Tsunami warnings on my phone.
> 
> I noticed that my e-mail provider had added an SMS alert option, so I 
> configured it to send Tsunami warnings to my phone. I can then look at 
> the full bulletin using the phone's web interface. The Tsunami bulletins 
> are formatted for telex (text with no graphics) and so display well on a 
> phone.
> 
> Each warning has to go from the Pacific Center in Hawaii to the UNESCO 
> Interim Indian Ocean system, to my mail host, to the phone company and 
> then the phone. But on a good day all that should take less than a minute.
> 
> The catch with this is that every time there is a earthquake in the 
> Pacific or Indian oceans I will get an SMS message (and charged 25 cents 
> for it). Looking up the bulletin on the web to see where it is costs 
> about another 30 cents.
> 
> 
> 
> Tom Worthington FACS HLM tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
> Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd            ABN: 17 088 714 309
> http://www.tomw.net.au                PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617
> Visiting Fellow, Computer Science, Australian National University 
> _______________________________________________
> Link mailing list
> Link at mailman.anu.edu.au
> http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
> 

-- 
Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannet.com.au>
-- 
When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux;
When you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft.
-- 
Flatter government, not fatter government;
Get rid of the Australian states.