Hyderabad: An year after the tsunami left a trail of destruction along Andhra Pradesh coast, there is a new hope for people with an interim tsunami warning centre in Hyderabad becoming operational.
While fishermen in coastal villages are rebuilding their lives with enormous resilience, the scientists are working to put in place India's first full-fledged, state-of-the-art Tsunami Early Warning System by September 2007.
At present, the interim centre is operational at Indian National Centre for Oceanic Information Services (INCOIS) in Hyderabad and is capable of issuing an early warning to government agencies in coastal districts in the event of an undersea earthquake of 6.5 and above magnitude on Richter scale.
Efforts were on to build a permanent system, which will be so accurate that it can pinpoint the places likely to be inundated and accordingly forewarn people of those areas.
"It will be a comprehensive set-up covering satellite-based communication system, 17 seismic stations, coastal radars and tide gauges," Dr V Sampath, Director INCOIS, who also heads the early warning centre, said.
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