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Published online 29 December 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041229-4
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Indonesian tsunami-monitoring system lacked basic equipment
Telephone line needed to relay warning signals was cut off in 2000.
A monitoring station that could have provided early warning of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunamis lacked the telephone connection needed to relay news of the impending disaster, news@nature.com has learned.
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