NEWSLETTER APRIL 2005
News
Dear UN Atlas members,
Three months after the devastating tsunami of December 2004, a massive earthquake hit the coast of Indonesia - bringing another round of death and destruction to the already-shattered region. The NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (based in Hawaii, USA) analyzed the earthquake data to determine location and magnitude, and issued a tsunami bulletin 11 minutes later. Fortunately, only small waves were generated, nonetheless it highlighted once again the need for more observing systems around the world.
A new topic on Oceans and Human Health has recently been added to study the impacts - benefits and threats - of the ocean on our health and the inextricable link between oceans and human well-being.
""I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."" - Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
We hope that the UN Atlas is helping all of you navigate through the oceans of information available to us.
If this newsletter may interest someone you know, please forward it. Contribute to and participate in the growing Atlas community by becoming an active Member of the UN Atlas today.
Thank you,
The UN Atlas of the Oceans Editors
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Three months after the devastating tsunami of December 2004, a massive earthquake hit the coast of Indonesia - bringing another round of death and destruction to the already-shattered region. The NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (based in Hawaii, USA) analyzed the earthquake data to determine location and magnitude, and issued a tsunami bulletin 11 minutes later. Fortunately, only small waves were generated, nonetheless it highlighted once again the need for more observing systems around the world.
A new topic on Oceans and Human Health has recently been added to study the impacts - benefits and threats - of the ocean on our health and the inextricable link between oceans and human well-being.
""I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."" - Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
We hope that the UN Atlas is helping all of you navigate through the oceans of information available to us.
If this newsletter may interest someone you know, please forward it. Contribute to and participate in the growing Atlas community by becoming an active Member of the UN Atlas today.
Thank you,
The UN Atlas of the Oceans Editors
Visit the UN Atlas of the Oceans Web site
Comments? Please write to [email protected]
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