After the December 26, 2004 tsunami, the Government of India invested heavily in putting together state-of-the-art infrastructure, information technology and resources to set up the Tsunami Early Warning Centre at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) in Hyderabad. And, this centre is working well, according to Indian Express report.Any quake that’s above 6.5 on theA Richter scale could trigger a tsunami and when that happens, Kumar gets anything between a few seconds to a few minutes to react, depending on the location of the quake. “In the case of the March 11 earthquake on the East Coast of Honshu, Japan, we were able to generate a tsunami report within seven minutes of the event. Our model showed that there was no threat of a tsunami in the Indian Ocean but it would hit the Japanese coast within minutes,” Srinivasa said, showing a simulated map of the quake and tsunami that hit Japan.

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