Search For Air Force Personnel’s Daughter Apurva

Readers Requested to Provide Information if Any

An airman from the Indian Air Force, Sergeant Ravi Shankar, was posted at the Air Force Station at Car Nicobar on the Andaman and Nicobar islands when the deadly tsunami struck on 26 Dec 2004.  

The airman lost his (then) 8-year old daughter, Apurva to the deadly tsunami waves and the girl was declared missing. However, in early 2005, the girl was reportedly sighted in the relief camp located at the Island Trade Fair ground, Port Blair by one of the camp inhabitants but no further concrete information was received thereafter.

The girl’s father returned to Port Blair in February 2005 to search for his daughter Apurva. His efforts to-date has not yielded any positive results. The girl would now be aged around 12 years.
The Andaman and Nicobar Command has also joined the search for Apurva in right earnest. A host of civilian and defence organizations, both on the islands as well as on the mainland, have been contacted to try and locate the girl. Orphanages, schools, tsunami records and other probable avenues are also being explored.

In case any person has sighted Miss Apurva or has met her in any capacity, he/she is requested to immediately establish contact at any of the following numbers/e-mails:

(a) Command Public Relations Office, Headquarters Andaman and Nicobar Command – TeleFax: (24 hours) 03192-232529 / E-mail: hqancpro@rediffmail.com ,pblmet9@yahoo.co.uk 
(b) Wing Commander R Muthuvel 0-9434285125, Commander Abhinav Barve, 0-9474267063, Lt Mannu Virk: 0-9932089122.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA:Unusual Tidal Waves...again but no signs of Tsunami

ABC News...

Huge waves engulf PNG provinces

There are concerns for people living on low lying islands off the Papua New Guinea north-east coast after huge waves washed away coastal village huts.

The east coast of the PNG mainland and the west coast of New Ireland province reported severe flooding from storm surges thought to have been caused by unusually high king tides.

Beachfront villages were washed away and pools of water up to two metres deep swamped towns.

Patients were evacuated from Wewak hospital in the Prime Minister's home province of East Sepik while doctors and police in New Ireland have been checking on people living on the nearby low lying islands.

The high waves brought back memories of the 1998 Aitape tsunami which claimed 2,000 lives in the East Sepik province.

There have been no reports of seismic activity or deaths.

Possibility of Tsunami in Northern Bay of Bengal

MELBOURNE: Millions of people living around the northern Bay of Bengal face the threat of a giant tsunami as devastating as the one in 2004, an Australian scientist has claimed.

There has been concern about the likelihood of another large earthquake off central Sumatra, just east of where the 2004 temblor struck triggering the Indian Ocean tsunami almost three years ago.

However, Phil Cummins, a senior seismologist at Geoscience Australia, has now found "compelling evidence" of a potential tsunami risk in the northern Bay of Bengal, particularly along the coasts of Burma and Bangladesh.

More than 60 million people lived within 10 metres of sea level at the bay's northern tip, he said, and heavily populated towns such as Chittagong, Dhaka and Kolkata could also be affected by such an event.

His findings, published in Nature today , are based on a review of geological data, combined with a study of precise measurements of movements in the Earth's surface.

This work suggested that the boundary between tectonic plates near the Burmese coast was much more active than previously thought.

The movements of the plates were consistent with a so-called "locked-thrust" fault, the kind needed to generate tsunamis, but may have been masked by a 20-kilometre thick layer of sediment known as the Bengal Fan.

Cummins said it may be more than 200 years before the next giant earthquake strikes. And while smaller events could occur earlier, "the risk of a major tsunami in the northern Bay of Bengal should be taken seriously".

He warned against panic or the introduction of any "drastic mitigation measures", but hoped his study would lead to further research into the potential risk.(PTI)

My note: Don't panic about Tsunami or Earth Quake..there is no predicting method invented yet.