A strong earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Gorontalo province on Thursday
The alert was raised by US Tsunami Warning Centers
Half-a-dozen of Odisha districts on Tuesday participated in the annual mock drill for Tsunami preparedness in the Indian Ocean region, a top official said. The mock drill, also referred as the Indian Ocean wide Tsunami Mock Exercise (IOWave20), was this time limited due to the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic situation, to test communication channels instead of full exercise, said P.K. Jena, Additional Chief Secretary and Managing Director, Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA). The mock drill was conducted marking the International Day for Disaster Reduction Tuesday in the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Puri and Ganjam. The Special Relief Commissioner, OSDMA, District Collectors, ADMs, BDOs, Tehsildars and Sarpanchs of six districts participated in the drill. "It was a table-top exercise that focussed on Information Dissemination, said Jena, adding that the basic objective of this years drill was to measure how quickly and ...
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck Japan's Miyagi prefecture on Saturday, officials said, adding that no tsunami was issued
The two coastal villages are Venkatraipur (Boxipalli) village of Rangeilunda block in Ganjam district and Noliasahi village of Ersama block in Jagatsinghpur district
Odisha's coastline has been ravaged by colossal cyclonic storms that have pounded its coast
Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency says residents on the Banten coast on Java island should evacuate.
Efforts to fully characterise the sequence of events have brought scientists closer to predicting such hazards well in advance
The country has no way of detecting the kind of tsunami that scientists say was generated this past weekend
Unlike other tsunamis that have hit disaster-prone Indonesia following large earthquakes, Saturday's big waves blasted ashore at night without warning
Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the death toll had climbed to 429 on Tuesday and at least 128 were missing
Fears about a public health crisis come as the death toll from Saturday's volcano-triggered disaster rose to nearly 400 with thousands more displaced from flattened homes
Experts have said that Saturday's rare volcano-sparked tsunami could have been caused by an underwater collapse of part of the volcano
Babu Kalayil had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September, predicting a major Tsunami later this year, reported the Express Tribune.
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US Geological Survey puts the preliminary magnitude of the earthquake at 7.7, down from an initial estimate of 8.0
More than five years ago, a massive tsunami hit the same area killing about 18,000 people
The drill, known as IOWave 16, is being held by UNESCO-led Inter-governmental Oceanographic Commission