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Technology is the thing which cannot be predicted that what will happen in the next few minutes. Recently developed tsunami protecting system had got some of the new things added to it by our scientists.

Indian scientists claim to have beaten the newly built tsunami warning system in predicting that the waves triggered by the September 12 undersea tremblor would move towards the open sea keeping the coastline safe. A team of geophysicists at the Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) forecast within an hour of the quake strike that the tsunami would not hit the southern Indian coast and, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. An earthquake of 8.4 magnitude had struck BengkuluThe Tsunami Early Warning System had taken nearly two hours to forecast that killer waves will not strike the country’s southern coast.

Immediately after the earthquake, a group of scientists at NGRI started simulating the tsunami using the American National Earthquake Information Centre (NEIC) catalogs for focal mechanism solutions estimated for the Bengkulu region, NGRI Director V P Dimri said. In southern Sumatra at 4:40 pm IST on September 12 triggering tsunami alerts across the region as well as in India.

The National Tsunami Early Warning System had issued a red alert for Andaman and Nicobar islands within 20 minutes of Bengkulu earthquake and followed up with another within an hour. Later, the alerts were downgraded after the scientists running the system found that the tsunami was moving away from the Indian landmass.