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Union Minister - Science and Technology Kapil Sibal at the inauguration of the Tsunami Early Warning System centre in Hyderabad on Monday.

After the huge stroke which we had tolerated A state-of-the-art National Tsunami Early Warning Centre, which has the capability to detect earthquakes of more than 6 magnitude in the Indian Ocean was inaugurated here on Monday by Union Minister for Science & Technology Kapil Sibal.

He asked experts to improve the system and further reduce the time for disseminating information to the targeted people. At times when tsunami comes people were ruined like anything, some where it became a no man’s land. Every one was searching their family persons and someone were even trying to find there family. India was just unaware of it but now we are prepared for it.

Lauding various agencies involved in establishing the Rs. 125-crore tsunami warning system without time and cost overruns, he said it was the most modern one in the world. It would now take 30 minutes to analyze the seismic data following an earthquake. The next task was to reduce the time to six to seven minutes, he said. The Centre was set up by the Ministry of Earth Sciences in the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) here.

This is a very good and appreciable change in the technology. Hope that we should just keep progressing like this in the future also.