Situation of 1945 sunami in Balochistan
The name tsunami is now common in Pakistan's politics but there is a person in Pakistan who really saw the tsunami with his own eyes and the fear of it is still stuck in his heart and mind.It was night time. We were asleep when our mother said, "Get up, there is an earthquake." We started reciting verses from the Qur'an. Outside, the sea looked far away, as if the land had dried up. Then suddenly the high waves of the sea began to rise and the people shouted to reach a higher place.The tsunami also affected Pasni, Gwadar and other areas, killing 4,000 people, according to government figures. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recorded interviews with eyewitnesses to the Makran earthquake, including Elder Amina, in which they recount the day's events.
Impact with Makran to Indian Gujarat
Haroon, another Pasni resident, said he would be 17 to 18 months old at the time. He was rescued by his uncle and father while his mother was swept away along with six other siblings.Her older uncle, two aunts and their four children also drowned. The effects of this tsunami reached as far as Karachi.Shivaji Badha, an 81-year-old resident of Indian Gujarat, said he worked on a ship. In 1945, when he was about 12 years old, he went with the cargo ship Paras Mani to the port of Karachi where there was a delay in unloading the goods. The captain told him to clean the ship."We waited for the ocean to come down, started cleaning, then went to the kitchen for tea, it felt like the ship was floating on a large surface of water, the water was about 10 feet above sea level.
The captain decide to return. When we returned to Gujarat, he told this story to the people and they said that they too had seen five to six feet rise in the sea level but no damage was done.
8 magnitude earthquake and tsunami threat
The quake that struck Gwadar on January 12 at around 2 am after 77 years has once again raised the issue of tsunami fears and threats.
Director General Pakistan Meteorological Department Muhammad Riaz said that the time has come for an earthquake to hit the coastal strip of Makran. According to him, although it is difficult to determine the exact time, the fault line of Makran coast subduction zone has accumulated so much energy that an earthquake could strike at any time which could bring a tsunami.
According to Muhammad Riaz, an earthquake of magnitude eight or more could strike the subduction zone off the coast of Makran, which could affect the coastal strip of Karachi and Balochistan.He said that the fault line has now completed its natural 'time scale' and the subduction zone is very active and intensifying which could lead to an earthquake and then a tsunami at any time. Can result in waves 10 to 15 feet high.
"Hard to predict but tsunmi is always possible"
Dr Muhammad Nematullah, a professor of geology at Karachi University, said: "It is difficult to estimate how much energy has been generated and how much has been emitted. After all, no one can predict. The same kind of subdivision that exists in Japan exists in Makran, they can't even predict.
There was an earthquake in Quetta in 1935 before the earthquake and tsunami in Makran. There has been no 'activity' in Quetta for the last 10 years.
What is Makran subduction?
Experts say that the coastal area of Balochistan is included in the subduction zone, which is a whole strip of 1000 km on which Pakistan, Iran, Oman and India are also present.Subduction is a geological process. This is when an ocean plate slides down. The subduction zones, which contain oceanic plates, are known for the earthquakes that produce tsunamis.
Nematullah, a professor of geology at Karachi University, says the earth has three boundaries: a diversion, a conversion and a transformation. Similarly, convergence has two layers, one called subduction and one called choline zone. The process of subduction is when one plate moves under another which gradually descends.According to him, this process has been going on for millions of years. A tsunami occurs when one of the two blocks goes down and the other goes up. Director General Pakistan Disaster Management Authority Sindh Syed Salman Shah said that two tectonic plates are found on the coast of Makran and about 40 nautical miles south of Gwadar is the point where Eurasian and Indian plates meet which is subduction zone. Is called
What is the Early Warning System in Pakistan?
Following the 2004 tsunami and its aftermath in Indonesia, countries close to the sea have set up early warning systems for early warning. Amir Haider, head of the Pakistan Meteorological Department's Tsunami Warning Center, said 20 early warning stations had been set up by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).UNDP has installed sirens in Gwadar and Pasni. Tsunami sirens can be sounded at the click of a button in the Karachi Center. There is a complete list of partners in case of an emergency, who will be issued a warning alert through an automated system. "Three minute of an earthquake is calculated automatically by an automated system, while the manual can be done in seven minutes, the world's tsunami early war.