At Warning Center, Alert for the Quake, None for a Tsunami
By MICHELE KAYAL and MATTHEW L. WALD
Experts at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu had no way of knowing that an earthquake in Indonesia had generated a devastating tsunami.
After the Wall of Water, Only Grim Discoveries
By AMY WALDMAN
In Cuddalore, India, a wiry gravedigger had no time to waste, no sentiment to spare: just a mass grave for victims, and mass grief.