Earthquake simulated to test tsunami preparedness on East Coast

INCOIS making efforts to make vulnerable communities tsunami resilient

An earthquake of ‘M9.2’ was simulated at Andaman & Nicobar Islands as part of the tsunami mock drill in coordination with Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) and Odisha State Emergency Operation Centre with the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS ) here issuing the alert bulletins to stakeholders for evaluating the standard operating procedures and the communication media on Friday.

This is to commemorate the United Nations designated “World Tsunami Awareness Day” with 69 coastal communities/wards actively participating during the tsunami mock drill to test the tsunami ready indicators. “Tsunami science has been going through several important developments and it is important to strengthen downstream part, which we are taking as a challenge. Recent tsunamis through submarine landslides and volcanos other than quakes like in Indonesia in 2018 brought us another challenge,” said INCOIS director T. Srinivasa Kumar.

Recognition accorded to two villages of Odisha — Venkatraipur and Noliasahi as “Tsunami Ready” is just the beginning and INCOIS is putting more efforts to make all vulnerable communities as tsunami resilient communities through the “Tsunami Ready” programme in collaboration with the respective State disaster management authorities, he said.