By NNN-APP
New Delhi : With the newly-launched tsunami early warning system, India will alert its neighbouring countries including Pakistan of possible tsunami strike.
Media reports quoting Indian Earth Sciences Minister Kapil Sibal said “we will alert our neighbouring countries, including Pakistan, of possible tsunami strikes in the event of massive earthquakes.”
In Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast, India has installed two bottom pressure recorders (BPR) that indicate the generation of tsunami waves, while a set of four BPRs in the Bay of Bengal will act as sentinels against the waves.
In 1945, a massive earthquake in the Makran region had trigged a tsunami waves which hit India’s western coast. It caused less damage since it was a less populated area at that time.
Indonesia and Australia are developing their own systems in the region.
Director of the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services said that all the systems being installed in the region would be integrated to form the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System. There are two tsunamigenic zones in India’s vicinity—the Andaman-Sumatra trench in the Bay of Bengal and the Makran coast in the Arabian Sea.