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Another tsunami 'in 50yrs'.


ANOTHER tsunami terror could hit Asia within 50 years, the Government warned yesterday.

International Development minister Gareth Thomas Gareth Thomas might refer to:
  • Gareth Thomas (actor) (born 1945), actor who played the part of Blake in Blake's 7
  • Gareth Thomas (rugby player) (born 1974), rugby union player for Wales
 told a conference on natural disasters the tragedy was not a one-off.

He said an early warning system in the Indian ocean would cost as little as pounds 20 million and could avoid horrific loss of life on the scale of the recent tsunami, in which more than 160,000 drowned.

The conference in Kobe, Japan, on the 10th anniversary of the earthquake there, was planned before the latest disaster.

FAMILIES of tsunami victims will not have to wait seven years before they are declared dead, the Lord Chancellor lord chancellor
 also called Lord High Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal

British official who is custodian of the great seal and a cabinet minister. Until the 14th century the chancellor served as royal chaplain and king's secretary.
 said yesterday. A way to waive the legal time limit where no body is found will be announced within days, Lord Falconer Falconer

prison where former professor Farragut, who had killed his brother, witnesses the torments and chaos of the penal system. [Am. Lit.: Cheever Falconer in Weiss, 151]

See : Imprisonment
 said.
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Jan 19, 2005
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