Killer tsunami's next target: Guj and Mumbai...will Goa be spared?..Eddie HYDERABAD: A second tsunami could hit India in November this year but this time around the killer wave could strike the Mumbai and Gujarat coastline, Indo-Canadian tsunami expert Tad Murthy says.
His prediction that the tsunami could next occur in the Arabian Sea is based on the possible correlation between two tsunamis. He believes that the tsunamis in the subcontinent follow a 60-year cycle during which the strain is built up in the earth's crust. "The last tsunami in the Arabian Sea occurred in 1945. Exactly 60 years after that, the Bay of Bengal was disturbed last year. There could be a correlation here and the tsunami might hit the shore before the end of this year," said Murthy. "Before the 1945 sea surge, a tsunami had occurred in 1883, following an earthquake in Indonesia," he said. Andhra Pradesh-born Murthy asked Gujarat to be prepared... to the tsunami that could hit India's western coastline, especially the ports of Kandla and Bhavnagar in Gujarat. Murthy said Mumbai could also be hard hit by the possible disaster. "While buildings would be spared, slums would be the worst hit. Mumbai could also be affected if a tsunami were to strike Karachi in Pakistan," he said. Read full text at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1245198.cms forwarded By Edward Verdes
