Tsunami could 'wipe out' Karachi

[Rameez Chaudhry]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=531092637022549

KARACHI: Pakistans largest city Karachi, home to around 18 million people, could be wiped out by a tsunami, officials said Wednesday after a drill simulating a major earthquake in the Indian Ocean.
The test, and one carried out a day earlier simulating another quake off Indonesia, were designed to check an early-warning system set up after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami which killed more than 230,000 people.
The exercise organised by the United Nations was based on a hypothetical 9.0 magnitude quake in the Makran Trench, where the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, off the coast of Pakistan.
This would create waves of 0.9 to seven metres high that could reach Karachi in one and a half hours, Tauseef Alam, the chief meteorologist who was supervising the tests, told AFP.
This could wipe out the city as the waves would be immensely powerful.
Karachi was hit by a tsunami in 1945 that killed at least 4,000 people, Alam said.
A repeat would likely have a devastating effect on Pakistan nationally, since Karachi, the countrys main port, accounts for around 42 per cent of national GDP.
The city is vulnerable because there is a chance of another tsunami in the same vicinity but we dont know when, Alam said.
In the event of a tsunami, real-time data would be sent to the Met Office in Karachi from Indonesian, Australian and Indian centres.
An alarm would sound when an alert was issued and the team would start disseminating the data to around a dozen disaster management departments.
Our goal is to ensure the timely and effective notification of tsunamis, to educate communities at risk about safety preparedness and to improve our overall coordination, Alam said.
But it is not clear whether Karachi has a tsunami evacuation plan, or whether one would even be feasible in the chaotic, sprawling city.
We will evaluate what works well, where improvements are needed, make necessary changes and continue to practice, the meteorologist said.


http://tribune.com.pk/story/760436/tsunami-could-wipe-out-karachi/

 

[Qalandari1]

The original locals of Karachi had already taken precautionary measures some 1200 years ago as the whole caostal region used to be prone to natural disasters in ancient times.

Jeay Abdullah Shah Ghazi !

Misreporting by the participants. There was no destruction in Karachi in 1945. It was the Makran coastal region that was affected. That is the only tsunami recorded officially in the last 100-200 years in the present Pakistan region.

 

[Haris Abbasi]

یا اللہ ہمیں معاف فرما اور ہمیں بخش دے

 

[Naj-khan]

lol the condition of pakistan at the moment is so bad that even a small wave can drown everything. We are under threat by internal/external and natural threats too.

 

[Sayyedzada]

Karachi ko tsunami se koi khatra nhi waha Abdullah Shah Ghazi abhi mujood hein.
Baqi raha currupt zalim log aur hukmaran to simple principle hai k jaisi majority awan waisay hukmaran.

 

[Sayyedzada]

Karachi ko tsunami se koi khatra nhi waha Abdullah Shah Ghazi abhi mujood hein.
Baqi raha currupt zalim log aur hukmaran to simple principle hai k jaisi majority awam waisay hukmaran.

 

[Sayyedzada]

Karachi ko tsunami se koi khatra nhi waha Abdullah Shah Ghazi abhi mujood hein.
Baqi raha currupt zalim log aur hukmaran to simple principle hai k jaisi majority awam waisay hukmaran.

 

[PAINDO]

یہ کیسی صحافت ہے ،ہے کوئی جو ان کو پٹہ ڈالے

 

[Topi_Drama]

The original locals of Karachi had already taken precautionary measures some 1200 years ago as the whole caostal region used to be prone to natural disasters in ancient times.

Jeay Abdullah Shah Ghazi !

Misreporting by the participants. There was no destruction in Karachi in 1945. It was the Makran coastal region that was affected. That is the only tsunami recorded officially in the last 100-200 years in the present Pakistan region.

لعنت تیری سوچ پے۔ اگر اللہ نے سونامی لانا ہو تو اگر ۱۰۰عبدللہ شاہ غازی بھی آجایں تو اسے روک نہیں سکتے

 

[Temojin]

لعنت تیری سوچ پے۔ اگر اللہ نے سونامی لانا ہو تو اگر ۱۰۰عبدللہ شاہ غازی بھی آجایں تو اسے روک نہیں سکتے

Allah apnay pyaray bandon ki vajeh se buhat kuch nahi bhi laata, aap ki soch ko bhi salam, ba adab baa naseeb be adab be naseeb, kisne kaha hai ke Ghazi ne rok leni hai tsunami agar Allah chahta ho ke aa jaye magar aisay socho ke Allah apnay naik bandon ki haya kerta hai aksar.

 

[Night_Hawk]

بحیرہ ہند میں زلزلے کے باعث کراچی میں سونامی کا خدشہ ہے، چیف میٹرولوجسٹ
ویب ڈیسک بدھ 10 ستمبر 2014

مصدقہ اطلاعات کے بعد ہی حتمی سونامی الرٹ جاری کی جائے گی، توصیف عالم فوٹو؛فائل


کراچی: چیف میٹرولوجسٹ توصیف عالم کا کہنا ہے کہ بحیرہ ہند میں زلزلے کے بعد شہر قائد میں سونامی کا خدشہ بڑھ گیا ہے۔

غیر ملکی خبر رساں ادارے کے مطابق مکران کی ساحلی پٹی پر شدید زلزلوں کے جھٹکوں کی صورت میں کراچی کے سمندر میں 7 میٹر تک لہریں اٹھنے کا امکان ہے جب کہ چیف میٹرولوجسٹ توصیف عالم کے مطابق سمندر میں اٹھنے والی خوفناک لہروں کی وجہ سے شہر کو بڑی تباہی کا سامنا کرنا پڑ سکتا ہے۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ سونامی کی پیشگی اطلاع کے لئے پڑوسی ملک بھارت، انڈونیشیا اور آسٹریلیا کے محکمہ موسمیات آفس سے مسلسل رابطے میں ہیں تاہم سونامی کا کراچی کے ساحل سے ٹکرانے کے حوالے سے کوئی وقت نہیں دیا جاسکتا۔

چیف میٹرولوجسٹ نے خدشہ ظاہر کیا ہے کہ سونامی کی صورت میں کراچی میں بڑی تباہی ہوسکتی ہے تاہم مصدقہ اطلاعات کے بعد ہی حتمی سونامی الرٹ جاری کی جائے گی جب کہ ہمارا مقصد شہریوں کو کسی بھی خطرے سے قبل اس سے بچاؤ کی ترغیب دینا اور باہمی تعاون کو مضبوط بنانا ہے۔
واضح رہے کہ 1945 میں سونامی نے کراچی میں تباہی مچادی تھی جس میں کم از کم 4 ہزار افراد لقمہ اجل بن گئے تھے۔​

 

[ishwaq]

Karachi could be wiped out by a tsunami: Officials

Pakistan’s largest city Karachi, home to around 18 million people, could be “wiped out” by a tsunami, officials said on Wednesday after a drill simulating a major earthquake in the Indian Ocean.

A Pakistani team member of Met Office's Tsunami Early Warning Centre collects real time data on a computer from Indonesian, Australian and Indian centres in Karachi on September 10, 2014. - AFP​

The test, and one carried out a day earlier simulating another quake off Indonesia, were designed to check an early-warning system set up after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami which killed more than 230,000 people.

The exercise organised by the United Nations was based on a hypothetical 9.0-magnitude quake in the Makran Trench, where the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, off the coast of Pakistan.
“This would create waves of 0.9 to seven metres high that could reach Karachi in one and a half hours,” said Tauseef Alam, the chief meteorologist who was supervising the tests.

“This could wipe out the city as the waves would be immensely powerful.”
Karachi was hit by a tsunami in 1945 that killed at least 4,000 people, Alam said.

A repeat would likely have a devastating effect on Pakistan nationally, since Karachi, the country’s main port, accounts for around 42 per cent of national GDP.
“The city is vulnerable because there is a chance of another tsunami in the same vicinity but we dont know when,” Alam said.
In the event of a tsunami, real-time data would be sent to the Met Office in Karachi from Indonesian, Australian and Indian centres.
An alarm would sound when an alert was issued and the team would start disseminating the data to around a dozen disaster management departments.

“Our goal is to ensure the timely and effective notification of tsunamis, to educate communities at risk about safety preparedness and to improve our overall coordination,” Alam said.

But it is not clear whether Karachi has a tsunami evacuation plan, or whether one would even be feasible in the chaotic, sprawling city.
“We will evaluate what works well, where improvements are needed, make necessary changes and continue to practice,” the meteorologist said.
As well as the Makran Trench, Pakistan also straddles the boundary between the Eurasian and Indian plates, and is hit by earthquakes from time to time.

A devastating 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit Pakistan-administered Kashmir in October 2005, killing more than 73,000 people and leaving around 3.5 million homeless.
And in September last year a 7.7-magnitude hit Awaran district in southwestern Baluchistan province, killing 376 people and leaving 100,000 others homeless.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-arti...tional_September204.xml&section=international

 

[Kahlown]

Re: Karachi could be wiped out by a tsunami: Officials

Allah SWT rehum karain.

 

[shiningstar]

Re: Karachi could be wiped out by a tsunami: Officials

oh no, GOD forbid, this should never happen. worried.

 

[frootloops]

Re: Karachi could be wiped out by a tsunami: Officials

Allah Rahem kare.

 

[Pakistan 1st]

Re: Karachi could be wiped out by a tsunami: Officials

ایسا کرتے ہیں ۔۔ اسکا الظام بھی ایم کیو ایم پر ڈال دیتے ہیں

 

[Bala Khan]

Re: Karachi could be wiped out by a tsunami: Officials

اگر کراچی مے سونامی آیا تو--؟
اگر ممبئی مے آیا تو ممبئی نہی بچے گا
اگر فلوریڈا مے سونامی آیا تو فلوریڈا نہیں بچے گا
اگر کیلی فورنیا مے سونامی آیا تو کیلی فورنیا نہیں بچے گا
اگر ہوا ئی مے سونامی آیا تو ہوا ئی نہیں بچے گا
اگر ڈنمارک مے سونامی آیا تو ڈنمارک نہیں بچے گا

کافی لمبی لسٹ ہے -

پاگلوں والی بات -
ایسے تو انگلینڈ یا امریکا کے طرف سونامی ا یے تو وہ بھی نہیں بچ سکتے.
اگر زلزلہ پوری دنیا مے آ یے تو دنیا نہیں بچے -
اگر یہ ہو تو یہ ہوگا - وہ ہو تو وہ ہوگا - بےتکی بکواس -

جو الله نے فیصلہ کیا ہے وہ ہی ہوگا - کراچی تو کیا کہیں بھی ایسی آفت اے نہیں بچے گا

hypothetical/wishful thinking of west

 

[jaanmark]

always hypothetical/wishful negative thinking of west for Pakistan and Pakistanis

 

[Rizwan2009]

اللہ سے رحم کى بھيک مانگو کيونکہ سيلاب جہاں بھى آئے غريب ہى برباد ہوتا ہے حکمران تو ہيلى کاپٹروں ميں بيٹھ کر محفوظ مقام منتقل ہوجاتے ہيں