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Scale of disaster

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One of many coordination meetings with different groups and partners during my time as Programme Manager of Padang earthquake emergency response Can you spot me in that photo? (Photo: Private archive) I have been lucky to be part of emergency response in two (or three) emergencies: Aceh-Nias tsunami Dec 26th, 2004, Nias earthquake Mar 28th, 2005, and now Padang earthquake Sep 30th, 2009. In Nias tsunami relief I took only a very limited role. But after Nias earthquake I had to play a key role for 4 years in all aspects. February this year I started a totally new "life" in the sense without dealing with project management and all related matters. Half a year later Padang earthquake took me back. Although in Padang emergency response I don't play the key role, but I could be a witness of some critical issues need to be learnt. I want to write some lesson learnt from my experience in that three emergencies. For now I want to concentrate on scale of disaster. B