Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre at Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, here in Hyderabad, has detected 716 earthquakes since its inception till date, including 103 in the Indian Ocean and 613 in other oceans. It has been making use of advanced technology and scientific models to provide initial warning of within 10 minutes of a quake of more …
Hyderabad: The swell surge that began in the Atlantic Ocean has begun ‘interacting’ with the Indian coast and the swell is expected to move northward for another 24 hours or so, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services said on Saturday. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal on the eastern coast, and Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat …
Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre which houses the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services in Hyderabad stated that there is no tsunami threat to India following the detection of an earthquake of about magnitude 7.5 in the Ritcher Scale at 12.40 p.m. near the west coast of Honshu in Japan on Monday. Senior scientist B. Ajay Kumar informed that …
The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, will be simulating two earthquakes, one at the Nicobar Islands on October 4 and another off the coast of Iran on October 11 under the ‘IOWave23’ exercise as part of the mock drill to test for tsunami disaster on both the east and west coasts. The …
A very severe cyclonic storm with winds gusting up to 185 km per hour was barrelling towards the Gujarat coast on Monday, dumping heavy rains on Mumbai, forcing the evacuation of over 1.5 lakh people in Gujarat and leaving two barges with 410 people on board adrift in the Arabian Sea. - PTI Maharashtra Landfall process starts; 6 dead in …