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Bangladesh
Earthquake Alert: Should we be afraid? by Sophia Barkat Earthquake Alert: Part of the Indian Subcontinent that was created by plate tectonics some billions of years ago when part of Africa merged with Asia, Bangladesh is an earthquake zone. Yet, apart from a few tremors of magnitude 5 on the Richter Scale we haven't seen the worst of them yet and don't have any understanding of how bad the situation is. One of the poorest and most debt-laden economies we are not likely to prepare on time for such a catastrophe. Even though the Armed Forces are exceptionally experienced at flood and cyclone disaster management and relief distribution, earthquakes are different. For one, Dhaka City is over-populated, as are the other major cities. The destruction from earthquakes could mean thousands of people left dead or homeless, and a lot of rubble to clean. And seismologists are apparently expecting a few earthquakes of magnitude 7 -- like having 911 happen all over the place. But how do they know this? Anis Ahmed and Nizam Ahmed of the Dawn write, as many journalists have been, that Bangladesh is now at the top of the list of those studying earthquakes. But the same article exposes the fact that we don't have anyone studying earthquakes in Bangladesh. So how is it we can be on anyone's list? Can this be done from far away? And how? According to "the Dawn", "The country seems woefully unprepared to handle an earthquake emergency. Its lone geophysical observatory in Chittagong can just about confirm that a quake has occurred but nothing more. " Data seems to be available about Bangladesh at earthquake websites, but the data is most likely released from sources at Bangladesh. The USGS for e.g., admits in the concluding remarks of a report on the India-China-Tibet region (includes Bangladesh) that: http://seismo.ethz.ch/gshap/ict/india.html "The computational experience in the GSHAP exercises have brought out certain concerns. The major concerns that have emerged are that the Indian region poses a lot of problems for the data homogenisation efforts and seismic hazard maps are strongly influenced by the size and shape of seismic source zones. Another key issue which is a cause of concern is non availability of representative strong motion attenuation formulae which compelled us to be satisfied with applying one of the internationally developed formulae. " |
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