03 Jan 2005

The Tsunami & After
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
[Extract: "According to the Tsunami Laboratory at Novosibirsk in Siberia, there were 796 tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean region during the last century. Of these, only 117 caused human casualties and property damage. [...]
9. An International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC) was established in 1965 by the IOC (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to create tsunami-awareness and to improve tsunami-preparedness through networking with scientific research and academic organizations, civil defense agencies, and the general public in the areas which are prone to tsunamis. It performs, inter alia, the following tasks: To monitor international tsunami warning activities in the Pacific; to assist member-states in establishing national warning systems, and disseminate information on current technologies for tsunami warning systems. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaii.
10. An International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (ICG) was set up in 1968 to ensure that tsunami watches, warning and advisory bulletins are disseminated throughout the Pacific to member states in accordance with the procedures outlined in a communication plan for the tsunami warning system. The ICG is a subsidiary body of the UNESCO and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).
11.The Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (TWSP) presently has the following 26 member-states: Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, France, Guatemala, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Samoa, Singapore, Thailand, the Russian Federation and the USA. It is reported that all these countries have also their national warning systems." - b.raman]
[The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Chennai Chapter - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers13/paper1209.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde[use"@"]vsnl.com)
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