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‘Disaster prevention is need of the hour’
Special Correspondent
PUDUCHERRY: The frequency of natural hazards has increased manifold in the recent years with the developing countries, especially in the Asian region, bearing the brunt of disasters, geologist and professor of Coastal Disaster Management Department of Pondicherry University in Port Blair N.Ramanujam told The Hindu on Sunday.
The great 2004 Andaman earthquake, which was responsible for 2,30,000 fatalities and huge loss of property had provided a great deal to the scientists to learn more about the tectonic implications with socio-economic development of the nation, he said.
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Against the backdrop of realisation of the seriousness of the natural hazards that hampered the socio-economic development of the country, experts had underscored the need to focus on disaster prevention and mitigation rather than disaster response, he said.
Many countries had already recognised that disasters should be identified locally and the community must be well-informed about disaster preparedness and being alert in time, he said.
With a view to meeting the growing demand of the manpower in the field of hazard and disaster management, the Pondicherry University had started the Coastal Disaster Management centre at Port Blair, Prof.Ramanujam said. The CDM’s work also assumed significance in view of the increased earthquake and tsunamogenic activities in Andaman and coastal zones of India recently, he said, adding that the knowledge of seismicity in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and other parts of India was one of the key elements for evaluating the impact of the natural processes on society.
“Increase in population density and higher concentration of physical structures without adequate planning and safety measures were vulnerable. For evaluating the seimicity level in these areas, comprehensive vulnerability analyses by taking into account of past disaster events - both historical and geological - and microzonation mapping are to be carried out,” he said.
“For earthquake prediction, the past seismicity level in the region was one of the key elements,” he said.
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