Friday, June 10, 2011

Tsunami- The killer wave…















Intimidating, aggressive and largely ruinous Tsunami has its own tag to drastically upset people across the globe… A lot more than what a destructive wave could possibly be; Tsunami would shatter the wall of hopes and possibility of lives all through the way it takes …

Wave names

The wave with a collimated idea to potentially destruct though, has a lot of names to term… It’s a Tidal wave by nature well not quite a tide…Scientifically; Tsunami Wave Train is what it is called… Oceanographers and geologists label it Seismic Sea Waves for the reason that intensity or technically the magnitude gets determined with a device called Seismograph

Tsunami is factually engendered with possibly two or more reasons… As latent, Volcanoes and Earthquakes go hand on hand…One triggers the other with no much differences in incidence… correspondingly its time for Tsunamis and Oceanic distortions to take turns… Not mutually initiative, it’s a big YES to one way prompting… Disturbances or displacements over the ocean floor puts water out of place eventually causing a Tsunami…

Tsunami – Is that a result of Meteorite--Planet Collision?

In a very rare scenario still logically true, the Tsunami is believed to be a meteorite collision… years ago (3.5 billion years app), a meteor crashed the planet releasing greater physical forces… The heat provoked vaporization on a rapid pace with a bigger bang… consequently, once on reaching higher air, the vapor condensed to drops falling over the sea… Scientists justifiably state that it’s the weaker ocean floor displacing on tectonic movements… Nevertheless, the strength of damage was just too high, leaving the mountain ranges and larger rocks on ground to survive…

How is Tsunami Invoked? - Geographically explained

Unmistakably latent is the course of action that generates Tsunami waves.… This is clearly the wave train or series of waves racing behind the other with indisputable force extending irreparable loss and calamity… things could be easily fathomable with neater vindication… Tell you, there are two parts of the ocean floor, facing one another, both quite shaky with smaller disturbances at the core…If a quake starts no lesser than 2 or 3 kilometers from the Tsunami prone weaker sea floor area, this would potentially agitate the floor… An obviously logical effect is that the strongly trembling floor would overlie on the weakly trembling floor with a massive distortion…Could possibly seem like the floors are fighting to go on top… The weaker trembler loses to the stronger trembler or the quake proximal zone… decisively; the pressure over the crushing floor intensifies with severe force leading to a crack at the weakly distorted or the underlying floor… Scientifically, these are categorized as tectonic movements or seismic waves…

Magnitude and Intensity

Sieberg-Ambraseys and Soloviev-Imamura tsunami intensity scales are employed to assess intensity of the wave train…

Hav is the height of the wave at the measurable coast…

Magnitude of the Tsunami wave is

a,b,D denote constants and R corresponds to the length or the gap from the origin of the quake…

Tsunami Warnings and Predictors

The waves can’t be evaluated on intensity with a number of devices generally used though… Everything is indirect… its gives you only one option of measuring the magnitude of earthquake or the underwater distortion thereby calculating the volume of displacement of water and its height…

A lot of systems predict tsunamis though not all time proving to be right and useful… Conventional methods track foretelling Tsunami occurrences from an earthquake where that always ends in confusion and seldom turns out worthy enough… The innovative yet one hundred percent effective means to bring out Tsunami possibilities are the Bottom pressure method attached to buoys… The device tracks pressure every minute and if on a dislodging, an interrupt or a warning comes out and auto generates in the Tsunami warning zones for evacuation… There are two Tsunami warning centers, one in the Bamfield, British Columbia, US and other in the Kamukara, Japan…

Occurrences

Not into too much detailing, I think it’s well enough if I plainly jot locative spots of Tsunami transpiring… Everyone knows how it hit and how tragically people lost lives and relationships… Oh! A long list to go if I get to announce the whole lot of Tsunamis that occurred…So I think I’ll cut this sentimental scene…

2004- Indian Ocean

Epicenter- Northern Sumatra

Magnitude- 9.2 app

2006-Java Islands

Epicenter- Pangandaran

Magnitude- 6.3

2006- Kuril Islands

Epicenter-Kuril Islands coast

Magnitude-8.3

2007- Solomon Islands

Epicenter- south of Ghizo Island

Magnitude- 8.1

2007- Japan

Epicenter-Northwestern coast of Japan

Magnitude-6.8

2011- New Zealand

Epicenter- Canterbury

Magnitude- 6.3

2011- Japan

Epicenter- Near the east coast of Honshu, Japan

Magnitude-9.0

Although with finely operating predictors and warnings, evacuation and saving lives can’t be an uncomplicated job… As it goes, you can always predict natural disasters, and never stop them from emerging…


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