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India Develops New Model For Forecasting Reach Of Tsunami Waves In-Land
India Develops New Model For Forecasting Reach Of Tsunami Waves In-Land- Details, Purpose, About
The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) under the shield of Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has developed a new model to predict how far sea water can travel after it overstepped its natural boundaries. Therefore allowing predictions of how far a tsunami could travel inland.
The new model would be able to allow the government and emergency services reduce destruction of lives and property caused by tsunami waves.
The new system would act as a Level-3 warning system under India’s Tsunami Early Warning System which was set up following the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Level-1 tracks the magnitude of a tsunami and while Level-2 predicts the potential wave height.
India is trying to develop a system for the nations under Regional Integrated Multi-hazard Early Warning System (RIMES).
The RIMES council consists of heads of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services and national scientific and technical agencies in the region and is currently being chaired by India.
About Tsunami Waves
On December 26, 2004, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 struck beneath the Indian Ocean, the epicenter being off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia.
The earthquake triggered one of the world’s deadliest tsunamis, which claimed more than 2 lakh lives in South and Southeast Asian nations. Deadly tsunami waves of up to 30m breached the natural coastlines of the countries.
Indonesia was the hardest-hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.
It is the third-largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph and had the longest duration of faulting ever observed, between 8.3 and 10 minutes.
In all, nations across the world donated more than US$14 billion in humanitarian aid for the damaged regions.
