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Singapore Preparing for and Preventing Disaster

The disaster and devastation caused by the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December of 2004 has prompted study that hopes to accomplish a couple different things. The study comes after the countries affected by the tsunami, discovered too late, that they were not prepared to cope with a disaster of such proportions. This study is being conducted by the NEA and they are spending well over 1.5 million dollars in an attempt to find ways to take more action and to be more prepared should something of this magnitude happen again. They want to make sure that they can more accurately assess the need to be so much more prepared should something like this happen again along the straits or in the South China Sea, thus affecting the highly populated island of Singapore. The nations economy would be devastated as well as world business, the luxury Singapore business hotels, and the tourism industry. Not to mentions the population of islands local inhabitants. The study also intends to find ways to better predict the tsunamis and perhaps ways to lessen the destruction by slowing them down.

There are two aspects of the seismological activity that may influence the occurrence of tsunamis surrounding Singapore. There are many landslides on the floor of the South China Sea. This is combined with the fact that fault lines in the earth surrounding the island may shift and cause very violent earthquakes of the highest magnitude. However, due to Singapore being surrounded by relatively shallow water, these shifts and this activity may have little to no impact on the island. As there would not be enough water to create a huge tidal wave effect from the earthquake. However an earthquake of the magnitude that is capable with this active of a fault line is a different kind of disaster in and of itself.

While the island still remains fairly save from the risk of damage from a tsunami, protection of people along the coast living right on the beaches is still a concern. The shallow waters provide a different kind of hope for the shallow waters will slow the tidal wave and lessen its energy, meaning that the people my have up to ten hours to prepare or evacuate. The study continues to discover and understand these drastic acts of nature, with the hopes of course that lessons learned will not ever need to be put into action.

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