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India
to have quick tsunami warning system by September 2007
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) A tsunami warning system that can give an alert
within 10 minutes of approaching disaster will be in place....
Strong
quakes shake Taiwan, tsunami warned
TAIPEI: Two earthquakes measuring 6.4
and 6.7 on the Richter scale jolted Taiwan on Tuesday evening, causing
Japan's...
Scientists
predict future tsunami
Two-years after an earthquake off western Indonesia unleashed a monster
tsunami, scientists expect the same fault to rupture again....
Indian
Ocean to have early disaster warning system
An Early Warning System for Tsunami and Storm Surges in the Indian Ocean
would be set up by the Department of Ocean Development....
UN
meet in India for tsunami warning system
Several top scientists and
government officials from over 25 nations came together for talks aimed at
setting up a tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean rim countries by
next year....
India
to chair UN tsunami readiness group
India was chosen to chair
an international group tasked with implementing an early warning system for
Indian Ocean countries after the December tsunamis killed more than 200,000
people.....
Tsunami:
Indian geologists own responsibility
New Delhi, March 1: Two months after the disaster,India's geologists have
owned moral responsibility for the deaths caused by the December 26 tsunami.....
Success
in tsunami's wake
After the Asian tsunami, public health experts worried about a
second wave of deaths from waterborne diseases affecting huge,....
Next
Indian Ocean tsunami matter of time: Experts
Canberra, June 17: Scientists are convinced
another giant tsunami will one day sweep across the Indian Ocean --....
Thais
open center for tsunami warnings
Amid warnings from scientists of the risk of more major earthquakes and
tsunamis in the Indian Ocean,....
Indian
scientists to study tsunami-volcano link
India (Reuters) - Indian
geologists will study molten rock samples from a volcano on a tiny
island in the Bay of Bengal.....
House
designed to withstand tsunami
The tsunami-resistant house is five times stronger than
traditional Sri Lankan houses, and costs about $1,000 to $1,500 to
build, designers say....
Tsunami
centre in India to have 12 seafloor sensors
The Tsunami Warning Centre, planned for India, will be almost
equal in technology deployment when compared with the Pacific Tsunami
Warning Centre set up by 26 member countries.....
Tsunami
health lessons studied
The lessons learned from last year's Indian Ocean tsunami will be
discussed at a conference in Thailand over the next three days organised
by the WHO.....
Indian
Science Congress to focus on tsunami, health
Ahmedabad : Catastrophic tsunamis will
be a major focus of the 92nd Indian Science Congress beginning here
Monday as hundreds of scientists gather to discuss issues related to
health, environment and space technology....
Asian
Tsunami: Science and Devlopment
THE death toll from the tsunami that hit south-east and south
Asia on December 26, 2004, has officially crossed 150,000....
Reanalysis
Reveals Tsunami-Spawning Quake to Be Second Largest Known
The death toll from Monday's 8.7 on the Richter scale earthquake
near Indonesia reached 1,000 on Wednesday as additional tremors
measuring up to 6.4....
World
Bank tsunami
New Delhi, April 6 : The
World Bank is ready to provide $553 million for the reconstruction and
rehabilitation of tsunami-hit areas in India,....
Tsunami
alert technology - the iron link
By December 2006, the Indian Ocean should be fully kitted out
with a brand new hi-tech tsunami early warning system....
Top
Two
earthquakes so close together a rare event: seismologist.
MARK COLVIN: It may have been only good luck that prevented another
tsunami smashing into Sumatra and surrounding islands after last night's
earthquake.....
GOVERNMENTS
CALL FOR RESPONSIBLE POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION OF FISHERIES, PLEDGE TO
COMBAT ILLEGAL
Rome - A group of 121 fishing ministers and high-level
fisheries officials who gathered at FAO over the weekend for a special
ministerial meeting have issued a joint declaration stressing the need
to rebuild fisheries and aquaculture in...
Tsunami
Reveals Ancient Ruins in India
MAHABALIPURAM, India - For a
few minutes, after the water had receded far from the shore and before
it came raging back as a tsunami,....
Seabed
Shifts Pose New Perils in Tsunami Region
The violent thrust of the seabed near Sumatra, Indonesia, that
touched off catastrophic tsunamis in December created significant new
risks of earthquakes and tsunamis there,...
India
'moved east' after tsunami
The Indian government has introduced new patents legislation in
parliament to stop local firms producing cheap generic versions of
patented drugs.....
Indian
Tsunami reconstruction to cost $1.2 B
Reconstruction
of Indian areas battered by December 26 tsunami will be around $1.2
billion, a official release published Monday said....
Migrants
clamour to leave Indian islands
With more than 30 years of their hard work disappearing in the
tsunami waves, thousands of mainland Indians in the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands want out,....
Extinction
threat for Andaman natives
After decades of efforts to bring the tiny population of what
some anthropologists call "Stone Age aboriginals" into the
mainstream,....
Indian
Science Congress to focus on tsunami, health
Ahmedabad : Catastrophic tsunamis will be
a major focus of the 92nd Indian Science Congress beginning here Monday....
Natural
barriers reduced tsunami devastation
The Asian tsunami destroyed lives and polluted water supplies,
but mangrove swamps and coral reefs lessened some damage, the UN reports....
How
the tsunami warning system works
The
new relief networks
The Internet is supposed to be capable of surviving nuclear
attacks. The tsunami was orders of magnitude more powerful than the
biggest bomb....
U.N.
to Coordinate Asia's Tsunami Warning Centers
PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - The United Nations emerged on Saturday as a
coordinator for a regional tsunami warning center....
The
Indian proposal
The proposed Indian Tsunami Warning System will include:...
The
Pacific model
THE Pacific tsunami warnings issued by the Hawaii-based Pacific
Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) on its network are,...
Coastal
concerns
The tsunami has brought to the fore the need for the strict
implementation of the Coastal Regulation Zone stipulations....
For
a reliable system
In the matter of establishing a tsunami warning system India
plans to go on its own despite the preference of experts for a regional
network.....
`A
good occasion for change'
John Kurien,
Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, is one of
India's leading experts on the fisheries economy.....
Fishermen at sea
The tsunami exposes the vulnerabilities of the fishing community
on the Tamil Nadu coast. Now it is time to think beyond just rehabilitation -
about a long-term plan to reconstruct lives....
Role
of Indian scientists in tsunami relief
FOUR WEEKS and four days ago, the
India tectonic plate moved underneath the Burma microplate,....
Without
Warning
Could an oceanic detection
system have saved lives?....
Space
agency to support disaster management:
[India News]: Chennai,
Jan 26 : India's space agency is framing a plan to evolve a disaster
management support system using the surveillance capabilities....
Coping
with the tsunami crisis
India's relief operation is
marked by design flaws, lack of a sense of urgency and a preoccupation
with geopolitics and image-building which could prove counterproductive....
Of
plate tectonics, quakes and tsunamis
THE total
energy released in the mega earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on the Richter
scale off the Sumatra coast on December 26 was of the order....
Waves
from the past
The tsunami
disaster triggers renewed interest in the study of historic earthquakes
and ocean disturbances in the Indian Ocean region....
International
brain-storming session on tsunami begins
NEW DELHI: Over 100 scientists from India and abroad began
on Friday a two-day brainstorming session here....
Advanced
tsunami system and still improving, Japanese expert tells how
NEW DELHI: On January 19, a tsunami warning was
issued by the Japan Met Agency after a quake of 6.5 was recorded off
Japan's eastern coast.....
Asian
tsunami alert system backed
Donor countries and nations affected by the Asian tsunami
disaster have agreed the UN should begin work on an early warning system
in the Indian Ocean.....
Why
Indian satellites did not observe the tsunami
INDIA CURRENTLY has 14
operational satellites orbiting the earth. Of these, eight are
geostationary satellites....
Satellite
data reveal new details of tsunami
The shaded region shows
the height of sea surface measured by a radar altimeter onboard the
Jason satellite two hours after the earthquake while traversing above
the Indian Ocean....
Global
MapAid seeks clearer disaster maps
Stanford project helps aid groups get real-time data.....
Tsunami
simulation an inexact science
Even knowing undersea floor, it's tough developing wave-effect
maps for S.F. Bay...
Early
warning technology - is it enough?
There is a sense of helplessness and soul-searching after the
tsunami last week that killed more than 140,000 people......
Indian
town sees evidence of ancient tsunami
POOMPUHAR, India - For generations, the people of Poompuhar have spoken
of the days when their sleepy fishing town was the capital of a powerful
kingdom,...
Beyond
tsunami: an agenda for action
RELIEF IS in full swing in
all the tsunami-hit areas of India. Medium- and long-term rehabilitation
demands three things all along the coast.....
Globalising
disaster management
In an earlier
column on New Year resolutions, I had outlined my wishlist. Topping the
agenda was the constitution of a national disaster management authority.....
Tsunamis
Tsunamis: sea waves caused by quakes, volcanoes, landslides and
impacts.....
The
tsunami phenomenon
THE series of massive
ocean waves - indeed speeding walls of water -....
US
scientist questions utility of costly early warning systems
Most warnings for tsunamis in the Pacific, according to the Hawaii
Group, have been false.....
REGIONAL
EARLY TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM UTILIZING SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY
Excerpts from a Paper Presented at the Pacific Congress on
Marine Technology, April 24-27, 1984, Honolulu, Hawaii...
Summary
Report on Dr.V.Gusiakov’s trip to Fiji and New Zealand (June 26 –
July 14, 2004)
The main purpose of the trip to Fiji and New Zealand
was the participation in the IOC/UNESCO –....
International
Tsunami Information Center
Net
Tsunami DSL
The
next frontiers in tsunami science
Research offers new hope - from timely forecasts to building
codes and maps of potential destruction....
A
natural, low-tech solution to tsunamis: mangroves
The coastal trees and shrubs saved
hundreds of lives in India by protecting villages from the waves.....
Killer
Waves Scientists are learning how to predict tsunami
risk
Last Nov. 16, at 8:43 p.m., a magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck
deep beneath the ocean near Alaska's Little Sitkin Island,....
TSUNAMI READING LIST LINK TO PRINT-FRIENDLY VERSION (32.0 KB PDF)
Digging
into a Tsunami Disaster
The date Dec. 26, 2004, will be long remembered by many
people. First, there was a powerful earthquake at the bottom of the
Indian Ocean....
The
Asian tsunami: why there were no warnings
As the horrifying toll of death and destruction continues to
mount in southern Asia,....
From
the Archive: The Tsunami of 1700
Around midnight on January 27, 1700,
Japan’s Pacific coast had an unwelcome visitor....
NOAA
REACTS QUICKLY TO INDONESIAN TSUNAMI
NOAA scientists acted
quickly when a warning was issued about the powerful undersea earthquake....
