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7Th September
2016
A major Indian Ocean-wide tsunami
mock drill involving India and 23 other Indian Ocean countries began on
Wednesday to test warning and detection systems.
A tsunami warning was simulated with
an earthquake of magnitude 9.2 south of Sumatra, Indonesia in the eastern
Indian Ocean at 8.30 a.m. The Total Investment & Insurance
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The exercise involves evacuation of
around 35,000 people from the coastal regions of India. The evacuation is being
taken up in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu,
West Bengal, Kerala, Gujarat and Goa.
Authorities in Andhra Pradesh have
selected a village each in nine coastal districts for evacuation as part of the
exercise to check the preparedness.
The end-to-end warning systems --
from tsunami detection and forecast, threat evaluation and alert formulation,
dissemination to public and their awareness and responses -- would be put to
test during the mock drill, officials said. The Total Investment
& Insurance Solutions
Named 'IOWave16', the two-day mock
drill is being organised by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
(IOC) of the UNESCO, which coordinated the setting up of Indian Ocean Tsunami
Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWMS) in the aftermath of the December 26,
2004 tsunami.
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The major objectives of IOWave16
include testing the efficiency of communication links, disaster management
offices and local communities at risk.
The Indian Tsunami Early Warning
Centre (ITEWC), based out of the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information
Services (INCOIS) here is capable of detecting tsunamigenic earthquakes within
10 minutes of their occurrence and issue timely advisories to disaster
management officials as well as to the vulnerable communities.
On the second day of the two-day
exercise on Thursday, agencies involved will simulate a magnitude 9.0
earthquake in the Makran Trench, south of Iran and Pakistan, in the
northwestern Indian Ocean. The Total Investment & Insurance
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More than 2,00,000 people were
killed in Dec 26, 2004 tsunami, which was triggered by an undersea earthquake off
Sumatra, Indonesia.The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
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