Is India well equipped to have advanced warnings of Tsunamis ?

Question

Remember the black Sunday? We don't want another one...

Answer 1

i am sad to say the answer is no.leave about tsunamis. there is no machinery to save people from cyclones, floods and chikungunya.

Answer 2

Dear friend we are going to have 20 nos of buoys erected shortly. That is with in a year. It will make our system sophisticated. You believe it or not I am the one issued the warning to the local T.V.Stations 2 hours before Tsunami struck our coast. They ignored my warning. It was possible for me to issue the alert message because I know from a book written by Mr. Bruce bolt that we should stay away from beaches if we sense earth quakes. He wrote in his book as Tsunami may attack long after the shaking is stopped. I sensed the earthquake wave for a total time of 12 minutes with the help of simple but reliable earthquake alarm designed by me in the year 2001 itself. As per the concept of Richter scale small shaking for a long time and heavy shaking for short time are equal in magnitude. I have reported the event like this. I have sensed the earthquake which I never heard in the history of earthquake. This instrument has proved its capability on 5 different occasions. As of now we don’t have any reliable warning system for earthquake to save the life. But mine will at least reduce the death rate. But nobody came forward to asses the capability of this equipment that can be manufactured just for U.S $ 25.

Answer 3

No buddy.... Still not...
India've joined the Group of Tsunami Affecting nations...
there is a Alarming station in Honk kong...
it ll be informed by the floating sensors in the sea of every nation in that group...
i think India ll be sophisticated with these sensors by another 5 years...
got ur answer buddy...

Answer 4

The Indian Ocean Tsunami early warning system may be up and running by June 2006. That is, if internal politics of the nations concerned and the transnational power-jockeying do not scuttle its formation. Indian Ocean nations cannot afford another mega-disaster in their beaches. An early warning system is the need of the hour.

Currently, the only early warning system to detect oncoming tsunamis exists in the Pacific region. The Pacific tsunami warning system has been functioning effectively since 1968. Though the technology to detect tsunamis is not very high-tech, the expenses to set up sensors on the seabed, networking them, a central monitoring node, and a seamless information dissemination system call for huge investments. This is the reason why nations in the Pacific region banded together to form the Pacific Tsunami warning system.

For the Pacific Ocean tsunami warning system, Australia provides resources, compiles information on earthquakes and issues tsunami warnings to its 23 member countries. Neither India, nor any of the Indian Ocean nations are part of this. Australia has offered its technical prowess and experience to develop the Indian Ocean tsunami warning system. But India, loaded with false pride, claims that the country is capable of developing its own technology.

Meanwhile, the Commonwealth has suggested that its 53 member states can pool their resources to develop a common tsunami warning system.
The head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, says a warning system should be examined for the Indian Ocean.

At a special session on tsunami, Germany, France, Japan and the United States were only a few of the nations lining up to make proposals, while India highlighted a system of its own. US ambassador to Japan, Howard Baker, suggested extending the current Hawaii-based Pacific warning system, which was set up after a 1960 earthquake in Chile triggered a tidal wave that killed more than 100 in Japan and other Pacific nations, while Japan pledged the highest level of support.

"When it comes to tsunami, we believe that Japan is the most advanced in terms of knowledge and technology," says Shuzen Tanigawa, senior vice foreign minister. Many countries acknowledge that Japan, with its long history of earthquakes and devastating tsunamis, certainly had a crucial role to play in forming the Indian Ocean tsunami warning system.

According to Unesco, a global tsunami warning system to detect tsunamis will be in place by 2007. The Indian Ocean tsunami warning system is likely to be in place an year before that, but if the way nations are going is any indication, it will take longer than that.

The cost of setting up an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system is expected to be around $30 million. This is peanuts compared to the level of damage wrecked by the December 26 Indian Ocean tsunami. Damage from the tsunami on the Maldives islands alone was estimated at more than a billion dollars.

Unesco, which helped in setting up the Pacific tsunami warning system, is taking the lead in international efforts to create a regional alert system for the Indian Ocean. Unesco expects this to be followed by a global tsunami warning system.

According to Unesco chief Koichiro Matsuura, "If everything goes well, the initial warning system for the Indian Ocean should be put in place at least in its provisional form by June 2006 and the global warning system should be put in place... by June 2007."

Australia and the Commonwealth are pushing for the creation of an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon have backed the idea of an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system.

India is seen as the spoilsport in the regional effort to set up the Indian Ocean Tsunami warning system. Many smaller Indian Ocean states look up to India for support, whereas the Indian science and technology minister Kabil Sibal has already gone on record that India will set up its own tsunami warning system. Unless India can rope in the smaller countries around it to form the Indian Ocean tsunami warning system, it may be another foreign power, may be the US, which takes the lead in mobilising them. And since many of them do not have the national ego associated with Indian politicians, they may be only too glad to accept Uncle Sam's embrace. This will undermine India's efforts at securing a regional superpower status.

Indonesia, Sri Lanka and many tiny island nations do not have the money to spend on the sophisticated warning buoys that cost upwards of $320,000 each. Indonesian officials have already raised concerns that the cost could be too much for a nation struggling to provide roads and electricity to outlying areas.

Answer 5

Is it so necessary.Tsunamis are triggered by earthquakes/tremors.
We can very well predict the moment we get information about earthquake in or near seas/oceans.Those who are nearby can very well be alerted in time if the Govt acts immediately..

Answer 6

I think an Indian Ocean warning scheme is now being devolped. I'm not sure if it is up and running yet.

Answer 7

NO, UR QUESTION ITSELF SAYS THAT THERE IS STILL SUSPICION ON INDIA'S ADVANCEMENT IN THIS AFFAIR...BUT THERE IS A POSSIBILITY IN THE FUTURE EVEN THOUGH IT IS NOT OF THE APPRECIABLE LEVEL.....LET US ALL WAIT AND AND SEE.....

Answer 8

no

Answer 9

no, i dont think so.