CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -India has offered tsunami early warning-system to South China Sea (SCS) countries like Vietnam, Malaysia and Philippines as part of soft-diplomacy.

Detailed explanation-2: -The USA (PTWC, US NTWC), Japan, and China are the Tsunami Service Providers. PTWC issues warnings for the US state of Hawaii, territories of American Samoa and Guam, commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the territory of the US Virgin Islands, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the British Virgin Islands.

Detailed explanation-3: -India is one of the 5 countries to have the most advanced tsunami warning systems in the world. In 2004, right after being hit by an earthquake in Sumatra, a massive tsunami devastated the coasts of India, prompting the Government of India to setup the INCOIS (Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services).

Detailed explanation-4: -Earthquake Early Warning systems are operational in several countries around the world, including Mexico, Japan, Turkey, Romania, China, Italy, and Taiwan. All of these systems rapidly detect earthquakes and track their evolution to provide warnings of pending ground shaking.

Detailed explanation-5: -When an earthquake occurs, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) estimates the possibility of tsunami generation from seismic observation data. If disastrous waves are expected in coastal regions, JMA issues a Tsunami Warning/Advisory for each region expected to be affected based on estimated tsunami heights.