No Tsunami this time around!!

While experts were keeping their fingers crossed as the hours clocked by on Monday night and into early Tuesday morning, there was growing consensus that the reason why the quake had not triggered off tsunamis was the direction of the fault line and the position of the epicentre.

This means that the wave is directed at the open Indian Ocean and because the epicentre this time is 100 km south of the December 26 quake, India is very likely to remain on the periphery. If the waves hit the coast, the maximum height at the shoreline would be just 1 m.

PS: At around 1 am (IST), the Hawaii-based Pacific warning centre said that “no major tsunami was observed near the epicentre” 125 miles west-northwest off Sibolga, Sumatra.

Its earlier alert had said that the quake had the potential to cause a “widely destructive tsunami” and authorities should take “immediate action,” including evacuating coastlines within 1,000 km of the epicentre.

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