Feedback from First Responders

12/27/2004 9:16 AM
Eng. H.M. Jayatillake, 
Deputy Director, 
Sri Lanka Department of Irrigation

Dear Lareef

Thanks for the v. valuable info.

We are right now busy with disaster relief and 24 hr Operation Room of the
Department is in my Room.

Regards.

Jayatillake

12/27/2004 10:31 PM
Ms. Mizna Mohamed
Director,
Ministry of Environment,
Maldive Islands


thanks a million..

this is the info i've been looking for... and calling up various organizations on it. thanks again

i thought i'll ask if u can give me some pointers, websites or ppl to contact on someting else.

we're at the moment trying to apply a severity index to the impact of the tsunami. As this is something we've never worked on before.. it is all new and we have no experts to help us on site. COuld u pls give some locations of an index we can adapt or apply.
the main indicators are area flooded on islands and the depth of the flooding on islands.

hope to hear from u soon

mizna

12/28/2004 4:21 AM
Dr. Amara Satharasinghe, 
Director, Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka

Thanks lareef. This is very useful.

B' regards,

Amara

12/29/2004 5:45 AM
C. Kodituwakku
Programme Officer
South Asian Cooperative Environment Programme
No 10 Anderson road
Colombo 5
Sri Lanka
Tele +94-(0)11-2552761
e-mail po_sacep@eol.lk
website:http://www.sacep.org/

Hi Lareef,

Yesterday for the TV news, Commander Jayaratne (of the Navy) explained to the media what a tsunami is. He correctly outlines the information in Sinhala. In fact I posted your information to Commander Jayaratne. It was a good briefing.


31.1.2004
National Science Foundation
Sri Lanka

Thank you very much for your information in the website.

Janaka Karunasena
Scientific Officer, 
http://www.nsf.ac.lk/ 

1.1.2005
H.A.Hemachandra Jayasena,

Senior Lecturer
Department of Geology,
University of Peradeniya,
SRI LANKA
http://www.pdn.ac.lk/)

Dear Lareef,

Thank you for sending me the compilation of yours and I send it to 
friends in Oregon and other global centers. It was really a big 
incident and as you found in your compilation, we could have avoided 
such a big death toll just by educating our communities. We have had 
some incidents even in the history but only few in sri Lanka was 
physicaly experieneced such an effect, I believe. Yesterday I was 
present to give some explanation to the Rupawahini TV Nuga Sevana 
program and had a chance to express what you have mentied in your 
compilation as well. 

I'll talk to you in due course and thank you for the upgrading of the 
web site. Just put the CNN weather Satellite images by DigiGlobe 
which clearly expose the retreating of sea water after the initial 
impact. I have already send these to John Selker who is the current 
chairman of the USGS equipment pool located in Bioengineering at ORST.

I am remainning now wishing you a happy new year.

Chandra

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:31:20 +0500
From: algeen@meteorology.gov.mv
To: lareef@iri.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: Tsunami
Dear Lareef,

I'm glad and appreciate the info you provided about the earthquake and tsunami.

The tsunami triggered by this earthquake caused over 3-meter high waves that hit Maldives. It has devastated 90% of the inhabited islands in the Maldives. Severe flooding, loss of lives, destruction of thousands of homes, displaced thousands of people and badly ruined many businesses.

Please keep in touch,

A. Algeen
Deputy Director,
Department of Meteorology,
Maldives.