Sunday, December 26, 2004
Tsunami
A tsunami (from Japanese meaning wave in port) is one or a series of ocean surface waves that occur after a large earthquake (having a vertical component of movement), seaquake, volcanic activity, slumps, or meteorite impacts in or near the sea. The term tidal wave is sometimes incorrectly used in place of tsunami but the two are different and in scientific usage tsunamis are not related to tides.
--- From Wikipedia
Huge Tsunamis hit the coasts all along the Indian Ocean yesterday morning, follow a massive underwater earthquake off the coast of Sumatra. The death toll according to last reports is near 10,000 with thousands more missing.
--- From Wikipedia
Huge Tsunamis hit the coasts all along the Indian Ocean yesterday morning, follow a massive underwater earthquake off the coast of Sumatra. The death toll according to last reports is near 10,000 with thousands more missing.
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They quoted a "Professor Kshirsagar, head of the geology department" from MIT Pune in The Indian Express today. According to him, there was a recent powerful earthquake in Antarctica, that should have given cues to geologists and meteorologists everywhere that more severe seismic activity was to ensue, especially along the tectonically stressed coast of Sumatra. Interestingly, this is the first recorded incidence of tsunami waves on the Indian coastline.
I used to walk on Marina Beach occasionally when I was in Chennai just a few months ago. Looking at the devastation on the beach in the papers, I thought, "That coulda been me..."
I used to walk on Marina Beach occasionally when I was in Chennai just a few months ago. Looking at the devastation on the beach in the papers, I thought, "That coulda been me..."
I was scheduled to leave for Port Blair for a vacation just 48 hours after the earthquake and the resulting Tsunami hit the Archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar, a few hundred kilometers to the north of the main epicentre of the quake. Hell, what's two days on a geological scale? The scary part, we were scheduled to leave on the 25th when the trip was originally planned, but the departure was later postponed by three days. It could have been me out there and 10 other members of my family....
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