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Tsunami Victims Should Be Allowed To Move Into New Homes - Abdullah
2007-10-07 16:57:00 "What are they waiting for?" asked Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi when told that the 2004 tsunami victims in Penang are still waiting for the greenlight to move into their new houses."Those who qualify and meet the conditions should have moved into the new houses by now," he told reporters after presenting Hari Raya goodies to the poor organised by the Kepala Batas Umno division here Sunday.He said the tsunami victims should demand an explanation from the relevant authorities why they were not allowed to occupy the new houses and tell the authorities their reasons of wanting to move into their new houses quickly.Reports said that the victims are still staying in temporary longhouses in Tanjung Bungah since the giant wave destroyed their homes three years ago although their new houses, built by government company Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB), are ready for occupation since February 22.They were supposed to move in last month but it were unable to do so due... More About: New Homes , Tsunami , Homes , Move , Victims
Tsunami Victims Should Be Allowed To Move Into New Homes - Abdullah
2007-10-07 16:57:00 "What are they waiting for?" asked Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi when told that the 2004 tsunami victims in Penang are still waiting for the greenlight to move into their new houses."Those who qualify and meet the conditions should have moved into the new houses by now," he told reporters after presenting Hari Raya goodies to the poor organised by the Kepala Batas Umno division here Sunday.He said the tsunami victims should demand an explanation from the relevant authorities why they were not allowed to occupy the new houses and tell the authorities their reasons of wanting to move into their new houses quickly.Reports said that the victims are still staying in temporary longhouses in Tanjung Bungah since the giant wave destroyed their homes three years ago although their new houses, built by government company Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB), are ready for occupation since February 22.They were supposed to move in last month but it were unable to do so due... More About: New Homes , Tsunami , Homes , Move , Victims
Latest Tsunami Updates
2007-10-07 16:53:00 India Develops a Tsunami Warning SytemIndia has developed its own tsunami warning system, barely three years after it was caught off guard by killer sea waves spawned by a massive earthquake wreaked havoc along its southern coastline.The National Early Warning System for Tsunami and Storm Surges in the Indian Ocean, a project of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, has taken shape at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) here.Scientists last week installed two bottom pressure recorders (BPR), key sensors that indicate the generation of tsunami, off the Gujarat coast in the Arabian Sea.A set of four BPRs have already been installed in the Bay of Bengal region and were put to test on September 12 when a massive undersea earthquake hit southern Sumatra."There are two tsunamigenic zones in our vicinity -- the Andaman-Sumatra trench in the Bay of Bengal and the Makran coast in the Arabian Sea," said INCOIS Director Shailesh Nayak explaining the need to install BPR... More About: Updates , Nami
Latest Tsunami Updates
2007-10-07 16:53:00 India Develops a Tsunami Warning SytemIndia has developed its own tsunami warning system, barely three years after it was caught off guard by killer sea waves spawned by a massive earthquake wreaked havoc along its southern coastline.The National Early Warning System for Tsunami and Storm Surges in the Indian Ocean, a project of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, has taken shape at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) here.Scientists last week installed two bottom pressure recorders (BPR), key sensors that indicate the generation of tsunami, off the Gujarat coast in the Arabian Sea.A set of four BPRs have already been installed in the Bay of Bengal region and were put to test on September 12 when a massive undersea earthquake hit southern Sumatra."There are two tsunamigenic zones in our vicinity -- the Andaman-Sumatra trench in the Bay of Bengal and the Makran coast in the Arabian Sea," said INCOIS Director Shailesh Nayak explaining the need to install BPR... More About: Updates , Nami
Latest Developments in the Field Of Tsunamis
2007-10-07 16:46:00 Tsunami warning systemA tsunami warning system is a system to detect tsunamis and issue warnings to prevent loss of life and property. It consists of two equally important components: a network of sensors to detect tsunamis and a communications infrastructure to issue timely alarms to permit evacuation of coastal areasVarious Tsunami Warning Systems around the worldPacific OceanTsunami warnings for most of the Pacific Ocean are issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), operated by the United States's NOAA in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. NOAA's West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WC/ATWC) in Palmer, Alaska issues warnings for the west coast of North America, including Alaska, Canada, and the western coterminous United States. PTWC was established in 1949, following the 1946 Aleutian Island earthquake and a tsunami that resulted in 165 casualties on Hawaii and Alaska; WC/ATWC was founded in 1967. International coordination is achieved through the International Coordination Gr... More About: Tsunamis , Field , Nami , E field
Latest Developments in the Field Of Tsunamis
2007-10-07 16:46:00 Tsunami warning systemA tsunami warning system is a system to detect tsunamis and issue warnings to prevent loss of life and property. It consists of two equally important components: a network of sensors to detect tsunamis and a communications infrastructure to issue timely alarms to permit evacuation of coastal areasVarious Tsunami Warning Systems around the worldPacific OceanTsunami warnings for most of the Pacific Ocean are issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), operated by the United States's NOAA in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. NOAA's West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WC/ATWC) in Palmer, Alaska issues warnings for the west coast of North America, including Alaska, Canada, and the western coterminous United States. PTWC was established in 1949, following the 1946 Aleutian Island earthquake and a tsunami that resulted in 165 casualties on Hawaii and Alaska; WC/ATWC was founded in 1967. International coordination is achieved through the International Coordination Gr... More About: Tsunamis , Field , Nami , E field
Causes Of Tsunami
2007-10-07 16:38:00 A tsunami can be generated when the plate boundaries abruptly deform and vertically displace the overlying water. Such large vertical movements of the Earth?s crust can occur at plate boundaries. Subduction earthquakes are particularly effective in generating tsunami. Also, one tsunami in the 1940's in Hilo, Hawaii, was actually caused by an earthquake on one of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. That earthquake was 7.8 on the Richter Scale.Tsunami are formed as the displaced water mass moves under the influence of gravity and radiates across the ocean like ripples on a pond.In the 1950s it was discovered that larger tsunami than previously believed possible could be caused by landslides, explosive volcanic action, and impact events when they contact water. These phenomena rapidly displace large volumes of water, as energy from falling debris or expansion is transferred to the water into which the debris falls. Tsunami caused by these mechanisms, unlike the ocean-wide tsunami cau... More About: Nami
Causes Of Tsunami
2007-10-07 16:38:00 A tsunami can be generated when the plate boundaries abruptly deform and vertically displace the overlying water. Such large vertical movements of the Earth?s crust can occur at plate boundaries. Subduction earthquakes are particularly effective in generating tsunami. Also, one tsunami in the 1940's in Hilo, Hawaii, was actually caused by an earthquake on one of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. That earthquake was 7.8 on the Richter Scale.Tsunami are formed as the displaced water mass moves under the influence of gravity and radiates across the ocean like ripples on a pond.In the 1950s it was discovered that larger tsunami than previously believed possible could be caused by landslides, explosive volcanic action, and impact events when they contact water. These phenomena rapidly displace large volumes of water, as energy from falling debris or expansion is transferred to the water into which the debris falls. Tsunami caused by these mechanisms, unlike the ocean-wide tsunami cau... More About: Nami
Tsunami: A Brief Introduction
2007-10-07 16:27:00 A tsunami (IPA: /(t)s??n??mi/) is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, mass movements above or below water, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, large meteorite impacts and testing with nuclear weapons at sea all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastating. The Latin derivative of the word for the smaller waves experienced across the Italian coast was Fillius Sum Sunamus which means, son of tsunamis, inspired by the Japanese word similar to "tsunami" after relations with the shogun of Japan. The term tsunami comes from the Japanese words (??????) meaning harbor ("tsu", ?) and wave ("nami", ?). [a. Jap. tsunami, tunami, f. tsu harbour + nami waves. - Oxford English Dictionary]. For the plural, one can either follow ordinary English practice and add an s, or use an invariable plural as in Japanese. The term was created by fisherme... More About: Tsunami , Introduction , Brief , Nami
Tsunami: A Brief Introduction
2007-10-07 16:27:00 A tsunami (IPA: /(t)s??n??mi/) is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, mass movements above or below water, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, large meteorite impacts and testing with nuclear weapons at sea all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastating. The Latin derivative of the word for the smaller waves experienced across the Italian coast was Fillius Sum Sunamus which means, son of tsunamis, inspired by the Japanese word similar to "tsunami" after relations with the shogun of Japan. The term tsunami comes from the Japanese words (??????) meaning harbor ("tsu", ?) and wave ("nami", ?). [a. Jap. tsunami, tunami, f. tsu harbour + nami waves. - Oxford English Dictionary]. For the plural, one can either follow ordinary English practice and add an s, or use an invariable plural as in Japanese. The term was created by fisherme... More About: Tsunami , Introduction , Brief , Nami |
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