INCOIS

A tsunami is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.

India has a tsunami early warning system established at Indian National Centre for Ocean Information System (INCOIS).
India can detect large undersea earthquakes in real-time and provide a tsunami warning in 10 – 20 minutes after the earthquake occurrence.
For Indian Ocean earthquakes where the network of seismometers is reasonably good, quakes can now be detected in less than five minutes and a tsunami warning issued within 10 minutes if the quake occurs elsewhere in the globe
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO) accredited Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre as Tsunami Service Provider (TSP) for 28 Indian Ocean rim countries, along with Indonesia and Australia in 2011, for issuing regional warnings.

Focus in recent times has been on enhancing community awareness and response through several capacity building activities and biennial Indian Ocean wide tsunami drills.
Also, piloting of the UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Ready initiative to provide a structured framework to build and measure capacities of coastal communities to respond effectively to tsunamis.
India has become the first country in the Indian Ocean Region to achieve the honor from the UNESCO-IOC. Odisha is the first state in India to have such recognised communities.

INCOIS is an autonomous organization of the Government of India, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
The major objectives of INCOIS are:
- To establish Early Warning System for Tsunami and Storm Surges,
- To undertake, aid, promote, guide and co-ordinate research in the field of ocean information and services including Satellite Oceanography,
- To establish, maintain and manage, hire the systems for data acquisition, analysis, interpretation and archival for Ocean Information and Services,
- INCOIS other major work has been on identifying the Potential Fishing Zones (PFZ) for the fishermen community.

The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) is the United Nations body responsible for supporting global ocean science and services.
The IOC enables its 150 Member States to work together to protect the health of shared ocean by coordinating programmes in areas such as ocean observations, tsunami warnings and marine spatial planning.
Since it was established in 1960, the IOC has provided a focus for all other United Nations bodies that are working to understand and improve the management of our oceans, coasts and marine ecosystems.

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