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Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services : Tsunami Early Warning System

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PCQ Bureau
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The need to deploy this system needs no explanation, because the devastation

caused by the Tsunami on Dec 26th, 2004 is probably still fresh in everyone's

minds even after six years. One wonders though why such an important project was

deployed 3 years after the catastrophe and not earlier.

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The Tsunami early warning system is a pretty complex project, providing lots of

advanced features to send early warnings to all areas that might be affected by

it. It uses N2 modeling to provide predicted travel times of a Tsunami to reach

a particular location along the coast. It does real-time monitoring of seismic

data, and determine the water levels of tide gauge and Bottom Pressure Recorders

(BPR) from various national and international sources.

Once a tsunami is detected, the system can disseminate information to

scientists, researchers, administrators, and of course, the general public

through emails, sms, and publishing on website. The system is pretty robust and

has detected 1000 earthquakes of 5+ magnitude on the Richter scale without

issuing false alarms.

Project Specs
  • Project Head: Dr.

    S.S.C. Shenoi, Director
  • Deployment Location:

    Hyderabad
  • Team Size: 15-20
  • Tech Used:

    Geospatial technology, seismic data monitoring with GIS interface, Tivoli

    Storage Manager
  • Expected life:

    Ongoing
Implementation

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