Given the high risk of tsunamis and underwater earthquakes near the Andaman archipelago off the east coast of India, the authorities work on the construction of a underwater network of intelligent cables which will allow early detection and an early warning concerning these potential disasters. This was revealed during a collaboration initiative led by the Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (Incomes) and the National Disaster Management Authority. The event also attended the participation of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG), the National Force of Research to Disasters (NDRF) and the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), among other stakeholders.
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Developing the risk of disaster along the east coast of India, the director of Incois, Dr. Balakrishnan Nair, said that he included cyclones, tsunamis and swells of swell. Houle waves are a meteorological event, resulting from high long -term winds in remote storms. He stressed that current early alert systems gave alerts on any probability of high waves, tsunamis and overvoltages.
Referring to the Andaman archipelago to the east of the Indian continent and the Sindh-Makran coast to the northwest, Nair stressed the risk of non-septime tsunamis which can be caused by underwater volcanoes and other weather factors. He said that underwater cable observatories or smart cables detect tsunamis faster than buoys floating on the surface.
He explained that the Indian government is working on a 270-kilometer-long underwater cable equipped with seismometers, acoustic hydrophones and other sensors that are intended to serve the Andaman region, which faces a high risk of earthquakes and tsunamis which can potentially have an impact on coastal regions along Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Dr. Nair added that the data captured by these intelligent cables loaded with sensors would be processed in a regional Incois center that would appear in the Andamans. He expressed his confidence that this future system would not fail to detect a seismic activity in the region.
Providing information on disaster management, Lieutenant-General Syed Ata Hasnain (RETD), member, NDMA, said half the battle concerned awareness and preparation for the public. He added that the major challenge occurs when ordinary people do not know how to respond to a natural calamity. Stressing the importance of a scientific approach to disaster management, Hasnain stressed that the first stakeholders are still the local community and not the government. He estimated that this is why the public had to be aware, autonomous and trained.
With regard to warnings in the event of a disaster, officials have asked that people in India download “Sachet App” from NDMA or “” Samudra App “of Integos. In addition, they also mentioned that the authorities disseminate alert messages on the telephones of a specific geography which is preparing for an imminent or scalable disaster situation.
Professor Balaji Ramakrishnan, director of the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), stressed that the Indian government under Mission Mausam (Weather) would spend RS. 20,000 crores (2.26 billion dollars) to prepare the country for meteorological challenges, in particular on the forecast and avant-garde front.
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