Tsunami advisory issued after 6.9-magnitude quake strikes Japan
Japan on Monday evening warned of a possible tsunami following an earthquake of around 6.9 magnitude, that struck the southwestern region of the country.
Japan on Monday evening warned of a possible tsunami following an earthquake of around 6.9 magnitude, that struck the southwestern region of the country.
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the deadliest tsunami in human history.
Dr. T. Srinivasa Kumar is a seasoned expert with over 25 years of experience in ocean observation, information systems, and advisory services, including the development of tsunami and storm surge early warning systems.
Norman Cousins, an American journalist and author, once said, “History is a vast early warning system.”
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 shook parts of Northern California, temporarily forcing a tsunami warning that led to evacuations in some coastal areas of Northern California and the San Francisco Bay.
The epicentre, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined to be at 23.1 degrees south latitude and 171.5 degrees east longitude.
Our approaches to disaster management education suffers from a complacency that is partly driven by the fact that government agencies are the prime movers and actors in the event of a disaster. Disaster education, as it stands today, is merely information and data in bits and pieces. The best way forward would be to transform the stagnant subject into a vibrant exercise in the art of living in consonance with nature.
Technology owes an apology to ecology. The final epitaph is: we have to live, generations after generations after us have to live, and, to live they have to breathe and we have to embark on a new paradigm for conserving the ecological balance. Man has gone through many revolutions throughout history. The revolution that daunts us at this juncture is not a social or political revolution but a revolution of our basic perception, indeed the perception of how we should live and effect a revolution of the future and beyond, a revolution to usher in a quantum shift of our mindset.
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An Organ Donation Awareness Lecture was also conducted on 11 June which saw an overwhelming response from the families of officers and sailors of the Southern Naval Command.
