The Tsunami challenge
Many lives could have been saved on 26 December 2004, when the tsunami unleashed by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 off the coast of the Indonesian island Sumatra struck a dozen coastal villages along the Indian Ocean. Those lives could have been saved if, on that day, science communication had not r...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sissa Medialab
2005-03-01
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| Series: | JCOM: Journal of Science Communication |
| Online Access: | http://jcom.sissa.it/editorial/edit0401.pdf |
| Summary: | Many lives could have been saved on 26 December 2004, when the tsunami unleashed by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 off the coast of the Indonesian island Sumatra struck a dozen coastal villages along the Indian Ocean. Those lives could have been saved if, on that day, science communication had not resulted in a complete failure to communicate scientific information adequately in many cases, in different places and at different levels. |
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| ISSN: | 1824-2049 |