At least two of its six tsunami-sensing buoys stationed in the Pacific Ocean were out of service on the day the notorious Indian Ocean tsunami erupted last December.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Important Research Institutes of the Euro-Mediterranean region will participate to the meeting together with UNESCO-IOC which, in response to the tragic Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004, was mandated of coordinating the establishment of the Mediterranean Tsunami Early Warning System.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

They were all crying having just seen on television the haunting images of the devastating Indian Ocean Tsunami.

NPR: A Hippo and Tortoise Tale

The latest full-scale test of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System had taken place on 12 October 2011.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Wendy Watson-Wright, UNESCO Assistant Director-General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), confirmed that the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System issued timely tsunami alert messages on this event.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 was a murderous event, but the world pushed on and many areas recovered quickly (see Buttonwood).

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