Tsunami: The Killer Wave
We feel tired by working continuously, how long she can work continuously? Whenever she feels tired she just relaxes herself and relaxes her muscles too. She is none other than our earth. When she relaxes her muscles slightly we have to face some devastating situations. One such terrible effect is Tsunami.
Here is what wikipedia says about Tsunami...
Why have to fear about this killer wave?
Pictures speak more than words. The above picture depicts the effects of this killer wave. This wave is really terrible and makes the living across the coastal regions hard.
Why a country like India does does not have alert systems?
If this is the case then why peninsular countries like India didn't have a Tsunami warning system or an alert system. Might be the complacency speaking its words !
Is that costs relatively higher? We are going to be a developed nation by 2020. Are we going to make a nation developed without providing the basic amenities like protection from natural calamities? Poor Tsunami does not know that India is a developing country and most of the people living here are below the poverty line.
If it had known the pitiable, rather the rising situation of India it would have not struck on December 26.
Perspective View from the ruling power:
The central and the state government had said that they did not know of the Tsunami so that they could not save lives. All of them have defended the lack of a tsunami warning system by insisting that, unlike the Pacific, the Indian Ocean has not experienced frequent tsunamis. Every one is trying to defend them and not the nation.
The hollow character of these justifications was brought into sharp focus by the events in the small coastal village of Nallavadu in Pondicherry. A timely telephone call, warning about the impending tsunami, saved the village’s entire 3,600 inhabitants, as well as those of three neighboring villages.
Nallavadu was involved in the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation’s Information Village Research Project. Vijayakumar, a former project volunteer, was working in Singapore and heard a tsunami alert issued there. He immediately phoned the research centre in the village, which issued an alert. His quick thinking, followed by swift and coordinated action, led to the evacuation of the four villages before the tsunami hit the coast.
If a single person like Vijayakumar can save thousands of people and nearly four villages then what can be done by each and every one of us. Remember collective efforts reap more benefits than individual.
Flurry of Questions from every individual:
If they know that they need is a warning system, then why they didn't have any arrangements. Are they were little careless. The little seems to be very big in its after effects. What were our research people and scientists doing? Do they know it? If they had known it why haven't they insisted the government to set up such network or alert systems? If they had insisted then why the government did did not take any actions? Suddenly out of no where each Einstein part of every Indian start to ask questions. But are they able to find answers? The questions are given another question as answer.
When we see the pictures and the after wave effects unknowingly tears flow from each and everyone's heart.
There is no denying that tsunamis are less frequent in the Indian Ocean. The lack of a tsunami warning system, which involves relatively modest cost, has led to the loss of tens of thousands of lives and suffering to millions.
Preparedness and Planning:
There is very little that can be done to prevent the occurrence of natural hazards. But while these natural disasters cannot be prevented, their results, such as loss of life and property, can be reduced by proper planning. Early warning is only one part of disaster risk management, disaster preparedness, vulnerability reduction and post-disaster relief and reconstruction.
If anything goes beyond a limit then it leads to disaster. Similarly over warning, based on inadequate data often leads to false alarms and lack of compliance with warning and evacuation attempts. Such false alarms result in a loss of faith in the capability of a warning system and result in reluctance to take action in subsequent tsunami events.
Minimize the false alarms:
What the system can't do is minimize the many false alarms that come with sizeable earthquakes on the seabed that do not trigger a big tsunami or even cause damage on land. That's crucial because emergency coordinators must know when to sound the alarm that will set in motion for mass evacuation plans.
Girl’s sea warning saved a hundred:
People living in the coastal regions should be trained how to protect their lives when a wave like this is suppose to strike. Students should be trained to protect themselves against the different natural calamities. This can be done by making this as a compulsory learning in their schools and colleges.
Remember how this is useful. Here is an instance which shows this importance. A girl aged ten saved a hundred fellow tourists from the tsunami because of a geography lesson about the giant waves. Tilly Smith urged her family to get off Maikhao beach in Thailand after seeing the tide rush out and boats on the horizon begin to bob violently.
This was enough of a booster dose, that would open up all our eyes and set platform for developing state of the art and modern warning systems and networking facilities so that in future, we don’t let loose one front while we are strong on the other. We predicted it, we sensed it, and we measured it, but could not save millions of people, when it occurred. An hour could have saved a lot. Information was residing in the minds of few; it should have reached everyone.
Next to Tsunami is the Mumbai floods, are we lacking in qui vive? Lots of whys' really burdens us. But as known frequent questions leads to solution. One more to add, what else are remaining? The question itself delivers the degree of danger. A horizontal development on all disaster management activities is needed. Exploration and examination of what we are having, enhancement and installation of alert systems with life saving vision should be our vision towards 2006.
What we try to do, the steps that we take today will help our future generations. We sow the seed, we can't expect the plant to reap all the fruits to us, may be the forthcoming generations will eat the fruit. Learning a lot from this, we are now investing money towards setting up big warning network systems and gauges along the coasts for tsunami warnings which in future will secure us all from such ominous scale natural disasters.
Here is what wikipedia says about Tsunami...
Why have to fear about this killer wave?
Pictures speak more than words. The above picture depicts the effects of this killer wave. This wave is really terrible and makes the living across the coastal regions hard. Why a country like India does does not have alert systems?
If this is the case then why peninsular countries like India didn't have a Tsunami warning system or an alert system. Might be the complacency speaking its words !
Is that costs relatively higher? We are going to be a developed nation by 2020. Are we going to make a nation developed without providing the basic amenities like protection from natural calamities? Poor Tsunami does not know that India is a developing country and most of the people living here are below the poverty line.
If it had known the pitiable, rather the rising situation of India it would have not struck on December 26.
Perspective View from the ruling power:
The central and the state government had said that they did not know of the Tsunami so that they could not save lives. All of them have defended the lack of a tsunami warning system by insisting that, unlike the Pacific, the Indian Ocean has not experienced frequent tsunamis. Every one is trying to defend them and not the nation.
The hollow character of these justifications was brought into sharp focus by the events in the small coastal village of Nallavadu in Pondicherry. A timely telephone call, warning about the impending tsunami, saved the village’s entire 3,600 inhabitants, as well as those of three neighboring villages.
Nallavadu was involved in the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation’s Information Village Research Project. Vijayakumar, a former project volunteer, was working in Singapore and heard a tsunami alert issued there. He immediately phoned the research centre in the village, which issued an alert. His quick thinking, followed by swift and coordinated action, led to the evacuation of the four villages before the tsunami hit the coast.
If a single person like Vijayakumar can save thousands of people and nearly four villages then what can be done by each and every one of us. Remember collective efforts reap more benefits than individual.
Flurry of Questions from every individual:
If they know that they need is a warning system, then why they didn't have any arrangements. Are they were little careless. The little seems to be very big in its after effects. What were our research people and scientists doing? Do they know it? If they had known it why haven't they insisted the government to set up such network or alert systems? If they had insisted then why the government did did not take any actions? Suddenly out of no where each Einstein part of every Indian start to ask questions. But are they able to find answers? The questions are given another question as answer.
When we see the pictures and the after wave effects unknowingly tears flow from each and everyone's heart.
There is no denying that tsunamis are less frequent in the Indian Ocean. The lack of a tsunami warning system, which involves relatively modest cost, has led to the loss of tens of thousands of lives and suffering to millions. Preparedness and Planning:
There is very little that can be done to prevent the occurrence of natural hazards. But while these natural disasters cannot be prevented, their results, such as loss of life and property, can be reduced by proper planning. Early warning is only one part of disaster risk management, disaster preparedness, vulnerability reduction and post-disaster relief and reconstruction.
If anything goes beyond a limit then it leads to disaster. Similarly over warning, based on inadequate data often leads to false alarms and lack of compliance with warning and evacuation attempts. Such false alarms result in a loss of faith in the capability of a warning system and result in reluctance to take action in subsequent tsunami events.
Minimize the false alarms:
What the system can't do is minimize the many false alarms that come with sizeable earthquakes on the seabed that do not trigger a big tsunami or even cause damage on land. That's crucial because emergency coordinators must know when to sound the alarm that will set in motion for mass evacuation plans.
Girl’s sea warning saved a hundred:
People living in the coastal regions should be trained how to protect their lives when a wave like this is suppose to strike. Students should be trained to protect themselves against the different natural calamities. This can be done by making this as a compulsory learning in their schools and colleges.
Remember how this is useful. Here is an instance which shows this importance. A girl aged ten saved a hundred fellow tourists from the tsunami because of a geography lesson about the giant waves. Tilly Smith urged her family to get off Maikhao beach in Thailand after seeing the tide rush out and boats on the horizon begin to bob violently.
This was enough of a booster dose, that would open up all our eyes and set platform for developing state of the art and modern warning systems and networking facilities so that in future, we don’t let loose one front while we are strong on the other. We predicted it, we sensed it, and we measured it, but could not save millions of people, when it occurred. An hour could have saved a lot. Information was residing in the minds of few; it should have reached everyone.
Next to Tsunami is the Mumbai floods, are we lacking in qui vive? Lots of whys' really burdens us. But as known frequent questions leads to solution. One more to add, what else are remaining? The question itself delivers the degree of danger. A horizontal development on all disaster management activities is needed. Exploration and examination of what we are having, enhancement and installation of alert systems with life saving vision should be our vision towards 2006.
What we try to do, the steps that we take today will help our future generations. We sow the seed, we can't expect the plant to reap all the fruits to us, may be the forthcoming generations will eat the fruit. Learning a lot from this, we are now investing money towards setting up big warning network systems and gauges along the coasts for tsunami warnings which in future will secure us all from such ominous scale natural disasters.
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