In loving memory: A plaque honouring a tsunami victim at the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park in Khao Lak, Thailand. — AFP
PHUKET: Ten years after the deadliest tsunami on record wrought destruction across the Indian Ocean, creeping complacency is undermining a hi-tech warning system designed to prevent another disaster of such shocking magnitude.
In the morning of Dec 26, 2004, a 9.3-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia’s western coast generated a series of massive waves that killed more than 220,000 people across 14 countries as far apart as Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Somalia.
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