Occurrence of soft sediment deformation at Dive Agar beach, west coast of India: possible record of the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004)

A post-tsunami survey was conducted along the Myanmar coast two months after the 2004 Great Sumatra earthquake ( Mw=9.0) that occurred off the west coast of Sumatra and generated a devastating tsunami around the Indian Ocean. Visual observations, measurements, and a survey of local people's experiences with the tsunami indicated some reasons why less damage and fewer casualties occurred in Myanmar than in other countries around the Indian Ocean. The tide level at the measured sites was calibrated with reference to a real-time tsunami datum, and the tsunami tide level range was 2–3 m for 22 localities in Myanmar. The tsunami arrived three to four hours after the earthquake.

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Vallicula multiformis Rankin, 1956 (Ctenophora, Platyctenida): first record from the Indian Ocean

Check List ◽

10.15560/11.1.1544 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 1544 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Amruta Prasade ◽

Deepak Apte ◽

Purushottam Kale ◽

Otto M.P. Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

Geographic Distribution ◽

West Coast ◽

Arabian Sea ◽

First Record ◽

West Coast Of India ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

First Time

The benthic ctenophore Vallicula multiformis Rankin, 1956 is recorded for the first time in the Arabian Sea, from the Gulf of Kutch, west coast of India in March 2013. This occurrence represents a remarkable extension of its geographic distribution that until now included only known the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

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English Private Trade on the West Coast of India, c. 1680–c. 1740

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115314000357 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 51-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Timothy Davies

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

West Coast ◽

Western Indian Ocean ◽

East India Company ◽

The West ◽

Trade Networks ◽

West Coast Of India ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

English East India Company ◽

Indian Ocean World

This article explores the private trade networks of English East India Company merchants on the west coast of India during the first half of the eighteenth century. Existing studies of English private trade in the Indian Ocean have almost exclusively focused on India's eastern seaboard, the Coromandel Coast and the Bay of Bengal regions. This article argues that looking at private trade from the perspective of the western Indian Ocean provides a different picture of this important branch of European trade. It uses EIC records and merchants' private papers to argue against recent metropolitan-centred approaches to English private trade, instead emphasising the importance of more localised political and economic contexts, within the Indian Ocean world, for shaping the conduct and success of this commerce.

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THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004: IDENTIFICATION OF TSUNAMI DEPOSITS OFFSHORE IN THE ANDAMAN SEA BY DIFFERENT PROXIES

The Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2015 ◽

10.1142/9789814689977_0184 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

KLAUS SCHWARZER ◽

PETER FELDENS ◽

DAROONWAN SAKUNA-SCHWARTZ ◽

SIWATT PONGPIACHAN ◽

YVONNE MILKER ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

Andaman Sea ◽

Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽

Tsunami Deposits ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

Tsunami 2004

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NAKHUDAS AND NAUVITTAKAS: SHIP-OWNING MERCHANTS IN THE WEST COAST OF INDIA (C. AD 1000-1500)

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient ◽

10.1163/156852000511231 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 34-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Ranabir Chakravarti

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

West Coast ◽

Coastal Areas ◽

Religious Toleration ◽

Western India ◽

The West ◽

West Coast Of India ◽

Cultural Activities ◽

The Indian Ocean

AbstractAmong the diverse types of merchants active in India during the first half of the second millennium, the ship-owning merchants occupy a prominent position in the coastal areas of western India (especially at ports). These merchants are given distinct epithets nakhuda and nauvittaka, the two terms being occasionally used as interchangeable ones and also in their abbreviated forms in official documents. Known from the medieval Jewish letters of 'India Traders', copper plates, a bilingual inscription, Arabic accounts and epitaphs and Jaina carita (biographical) texts, nakudas and nauvittkas of different religious leanings (Jewish, Muslim and Hindu) illustrate remarkable co-operation and social amity and religious toleration, which underline their importance in the Indian Ocean maritime network prior to AD 1500. Possessing considerable wealth, these ship-owning merchants can be considered as elites in the ports of coastal western India and were also known for their patronage to religious and cultural activities. The paper is presented as a tribute to the memory of Professor Ashin Das Gupta who immensely enlightened us on the ship-owners of coastal western India between 1500-1800.

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Field surveys and numerical modelling of the 2004 December 26 Indian Ocean tsunami in the area of Mumbai, west coast of India

Geophysical Journal International ◽

10.1093/gji/ggaa277 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 222 (3) ◽

pp. 1952-1964 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mohammad Heidarzadeh ◽

Alexander Rabinovich ◽

Satoshi Kusumoto ◽

C P Rajendran

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

Subduction Zone ◽

West Coast ◽

Subduction Zones ◽

Field Survey ◽

Tide Gauge ◽

Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽

Tide Gauge Records ◽

Makran Subduction Zone ◽

The Indian Ocean

ABSTRACT In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean (Sumatra-Andaman) tsunami, numerous survey teams investigated its effects on various locations across the Indian Ocean. However, these efforts were focused only on sites that experienced major destruction and a high death toll. As a consequence, some Indian Ocean coastal megacities were not examined. Among the cities not surveyed was Mumbai, the principal west coast port and economical capital of India with a population of more than 12 million. Mumbai is at risk of tsunamis from two major subduction zones in the Indian Ocean: the Sumatra–Andaman subduction zone (SASZ) and the Makran subduction zone (MSZ). As a part of the present study, we conducted a field survey of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami effects in Mumbai, analysed the available tide gauge records and performed tsunami simulations. Our field survey in 2018 January found run-up heights of 1.6−3.3 m in the Mumbai area. According to our analysis of tide gauge data, tsunami trough-to-crest heights in Okha (550 km to the north of Mumbai) and in Mormugao (410 km to the south of Mumbai) were 46 cm and 108 cm, respectively. Simulations of a hypothetical MSZ Mw 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, together with the Mw 9.1 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake and tsunami, show that the tsunami heights generated in Mumbai by an MSZ tsunami would be significantly larger than those generated by the 2004 Sumatra–Andaman tsunami. This result indicates that future tsunami hazard mitigation for Mumbai needs to be based on a potential large MSZ earthquake rather than an SASZ earthquake.

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Sedimentology of Coastal Deposits in the Seychelles Islands—Evidence of the Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004

Pure and Applied Geophysics ◽

10.1007/s00024-014-0990-9 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 172 (3-4) ◽

pp. 641-656 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vanessa Nentwig ◽

Heinrich Bahlburg ◽

Devis Monthy

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽

Seychelles Islands ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

Coastal Deposits ◽

Tsunami 2004

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Disciplining the other

Contributions to Indian Sociology ◽

10.1177/0069966718785961 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 308-335

Author(s):

Ajay Saini

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

National Security ◽

The Other ◽

Indian Ocean Tsunami ◽

Humanitarian Response ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

Raison D’État ◽

The Government ◽

Tsunami 2004

The Indian Ocean tsunami (2004) devastated the Nicobar archipelago, a remote tribal reserve in the Indian Ocean, which the Nicobarese indigenes have traditionally inhabited. The catastrophe attracted a massive humanitarian response from the Government of India (GoI), leading to a sociocultural crisis among the Nicobarese that is inextricably linked to the post-tsunami humanitarian government in the Nicobar, which undermined what was once a self-sustaining community. Using Michel Foucault’s analytic of governmentality, this article elucidates how the humanitarian government in the southern Nicobar, motivated by a raison d’état of national security, attempted to discipline the traditional Nicobarese by developing new forms of subjectivities among them.

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Report of ciliate-bryozoan-crustacean hyperepibiosis on crab (Decapoda: Brachyura) from west coast of India, Arabian Sea

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4890.3.3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4890 (3) ◽

pp. 347-360

Author(s):

TAPAS CHATTERJEE ◽

IGOR DOVGAL ◽

LEANDRO M. VIEIRA ◽

ARPITA DUTTA ◽

MANDAR NANAJKAR

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

West Coast ◽

Arabian Sea ◽

River Mouth ◽

Common Phenomenon ◽

West Coast Of India ◽

Stable Substrate ◽

The Indian Ocean ◽

First Time

Epibiosis is a common phenomenon, found in different taxa of aquatic animals. This relationship could occur as hyperepibiosis, when a basibiont being also an epibiont, providing a stable substrate for the hypersymbiont. Here we reported a ciliate-bryozoan-crustacean hyperepibiosis in Mandovi River mouth, Goa, West coast of India. We provided descriptions and characterization of the crab Atergatis sp., serving as basibiont for the bryozoan Triticella pedicellata (Alder, 1857), in turn colonized with (hyperepibionts) the ciliates Paracineta saifulae (Mereschkowsky, 1877) and Cothurnia ceramicola Kahl, 1933. Paracineta saifulae and Cothurnia ceramicola are reported here for first time from the Indian Ocean.

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