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IMD launches impact-based cyclone warning system

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    10Pointer
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    Environment
  • Published
    15th Oct, 2020

  • India Meteorological Department(IMD) has launched a dynamic, impact-based cyclone warning system.
  • To minimize economic losses and damage to property from cyclones that hit the country’s coasts every year.
  • Under this, district or location will issue specific warnings which will factor in the infrastructure, local population; settlements, land use as well as other elements will be disseminated and prepared.
  • All the disaster management agencies will also make the extensive use of geological, cartographic and hydrological data available for the concerned district.
  • If a district is to be hit by a wind up to 160 kmph, the system will warn about the kind of infrastructure that will likely get damaged and these can be mapped.
  • IMD: It was established in 1875.It is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.It is the principal agency responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasting and seismology.

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