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India is safe against Tsunami Threat
Why is it in News?
- India Is much safer against tsunami threat than it was in 2004 : INCOIS director.
Details:
- In 2007, India had established state-of-the-art tsunami early warning system established at Indian National Centre for Ocean Information System (INCOIS).
- It can detect large under sea earthquakes in real-time.
- It provides a tsunami warning in 10 – 20 minutes after the earthquake occurrence.
- Recent focus areas:
(1) Enhancing community awareness and response through several capacity building activities;
(2) Conducting biennial Indian Ocean wide tsunami drills;
(3) Piloting of the UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Ready initiative to provide a structured framework to build and measure capacities of coastal communities to respond effectively to tsunamis.
- INCOIS:
(1) It stands for ‘Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services’.
(2) It is an autonomous organization of the Government of India, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, located in Hyderabad.
(3) It is mandated to provide the best possible ocean information and advisory services. It provides services to society, industry, government agencies and the scientific community through sustained ocean observations and constant improvements through systematic and focussed research.