Thursday, December 01, 2005

Tsunami in Sg?
















Apparently, a well known expert from Thailand, has predicted that Tsunamis in future may hit Sg and Msia as reported in The Straits Times , refer to article on the left,..is it big enough..? if not..refer to this link: http://img345.imageshack.us/my.php?image=singapore9ux2ku.jpg

I sincerely hope, this does not happen, even if it does, if these tsunamis really hit us, i do hope that there will be minimal damage or that we will be lucky and be sheltered again...This article appeared in The Straits Times on Oct 15...

refer to map above, the black cross mark is where the Earthquake hit last Dec 26, which triggered the Tsunami disaster. The red-lined coasts are the affected areas from that tsunami. The expert predicts the Tsunami-triggering earthquakes will hit somewhere above the andaman & nicobar islands, which is around the red circle i drew....If an earthquake does happen, and a tsunami is triggered...the waves will head diagonally(south-east, the waves spread out in a circle, which i'm sure everyone knows) down the Straits of Malacca, affecting Malaysia and Singapore, Malaysia will take the brunt of the damage. The west side, as can be seen from the map will take most of the damage, but as Singapore is low-lying, maybe the whole island will be affected?

However, i wonder how credible this source is or how real the Sg government perceive this threat as because there is no word from them. And the Sg government being its practical self, is not one to sit around if there are threats to the island's safety...Though there is still no word about the Early Tsunami Detection System pledged to be built after the Tsunamis last Dec...

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