Nations Development Programme), and now also involves several other international organisations. MFF focuses on the countries worst hit by the 2004 tsunami, i.e. India, Indonesia, Maldives, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. While highlighting mangroves as an important flagship ecosystem of its efforts in the region, the MFF is also looking at the conservation of other features, including cor...

Tsunami is a system of ocean gravity waves formed as a result of large-scale disturbance of the sea floor that occurs in a relatively short duration of time. The Indian Ocean is likely to be affected by tsunamis generated mainly by earthquakes from the two potential source regions, the Andaman-Nicobar-Sumatra Island Arc and the Makran Subduction Zone. A state-of-the-art warning centre has been ...

From 2000 to 2015, tsunamis and storms killed more than 430,000 people worldwide and affected a further >530 million, with total damages exceeding US$970 billion. These alarming trends, underscored by the tragic events of the 2004 Indian Ocean catastrophe, have fueled increased worldwide demands for assessments of past, present, and future coastal risks. Nonetheless, despite its importance for ...

A global ocean circulation model is coupled to a particle-tracking model to simulate the transport of floating debris washed into the North Pacific Ocean by the Tohoku tsunami. A release scenario for the tsunami debris is based on coastal population and measured tsunami runup. Archived 2011/2012 hindcast current data is used to model the transport of debris since the tsunami, while data from 20...

Observations of tsunamis away from shore are critically important for improving early warning systems and understanding of tsunami generation and propagation. Tsunamis are difficult to detect and measure in the open ocean because the wave amplitude there is much smaller than it is close to shore. Currently, tsunami observations in deep water rely on measurements of variations in the sea surface...

BACKGROUND Negative life events in childhood have an adverse influence on adult psychological health, and increase vulnerability to subsequent potential traumas. It remains unclear whether this is also true in the case of disasters. AIM This study investigates whether the experience of negative life events in childhood and adolescence was associated with psychological symptoms in groups of Sw...

s: Thematic Session –Cyclone and Tsunami THEMATIC SESSION B4 CYCLONE AND TSUNAMI Chairperson: Prof. S. K. Dube Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur