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Kannap at Risk of Devastating Tsunami, Experts Warn - The National Observer - 10/12/2018

Kannapian experts have recently warned the government and citizens of the nation that a devastating tsunami could hit the nation and that current emergency policies and plans are not prepared for such a disaster.

Benjamin Tyuti, head scientist of the Kannapian National Oceanic Administration (NOA), issued a statement on the topic, "Latest studies have should that if any tsunami hit the Kannapian coast, the effects would be devastatingly and deadly. More than 80% of Kannapians live within 50 kilometers of the coast, so if we don't have adequate preparations and plans for dealing with such a disaster, the results could be large scale death and destruction. I am currently working with the government and emergency management agencies about developing new policies and plans for a disaster of this nature."

Cynthia Hawksbill, the head professor of the geoscience program at Bergsstad University, also spoke on the matter. "Historically, we have seen a few tsunamis hit the Kannapian islands. They're always devastating in one way or another - we're an island nation based on thousands of islands. Whether it's our bigger islands that hold tens of millions of citizens or our smaller islands that hold tens of citizens, it could devastate an island community easily. In the last century, two major tsunamis have hit the nation and looking at how distant they were from each other and how recent the last one was, we're overdue to be hit by another tsunami. We need to be prepared."

Melissa Wilson, head of the coastal science program at Concordia College, also spoke on the history of tsunamis hitting Kannap. "The last one was in 1960, an earthquake happened on the west coast of South America and we recorded tsunami waves on our eastern coast. The city of Royale saw 1,710 people killed by the waves. That's a tsunami caused by an earthquake nearly 10,000 kilometers away, they can be caused by far easier conditions that people think."

Melissa Wilson continues, "In 1965, police officers in Royale reported unusually large waves. Similarly, unusually large waves were reported on the coasts near Kannapolis in 1967. These weren't tsunamis, but larger-than-normal waves can still cause flood damage and deaths."

On the island of Kataran, the biggest of the Kannapian islands, NOA has implemented systems and policies to assess tsunami risk and report activity. The National Meteorology Service (NMS) can be warned within ten minutes of the occurrence of an earthquake. Following that alert, three agencies - NOA, NMS, and the Kannapian Tsunami Warning Center (KTWC) - immediately start monitoring at sea level whether if a tsunami has been caused. They follow its speed and path and make a rough estimation of when and where it will make landfall - then the evacuation order is given.

We asked Melissa Wilson what parts of the nation were more at risk, if any were. She responded, "Well, naturally any coastline can be hit with a tsunami where tectonic plates on the sea floor can slide and cause an earthquake that leads to a tsunami. However, the east coast is definitely the most likely location to be hit by a tsunami, it borders the Pacific Ocean. The west coast is also a potential hot spot because it borders the Indian Ocean. We're not too concerned about the northern and southern coasts of our bigger islands, but some of our smaller islands that jut thousands of kilometers further into the Pacific can be hit from any direction. We are monitoring all our surrounding bodies of water, of course."

She continued, "If the tsunami were coming from the north, we'd be more well off than if it were coming from any other direction. Our warning system is organized to always give at least 90 minutes of warning. That's 90 minutes to evacuate as many people as possible from the projected landfall area. We work with our northern Indonesia neighbors, as well, to monitor tsunamis coming from the north. Though we're better positioned than our neighbors. If it were to come from the north, Indonesia could manage the 90 minute warning, hopefully, and we'd have closer to four hours to evacuate our northern coastal cities and towns."

Various relief organizations and government agencies are working together to constantly develop better prediction efforts, evacuation procedures, and relief and aid plans - both domestic and for our neighbors on a foreign aid scale. Regardless, the best outcome is a tsunami not happening.

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