TSUNAMI EFFECT AN EXPERIENCE NEAR DEATH

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TSUNAMI EFFECT AN EXPERIENCE NEAR DEATH

• Ramen Kumar Parui
• AAI, NSCBI Airport,
• DumDum, Kolkata, India

I first give my sincere thanks to the organiser,
in particular to Professor Anjan Kundu, for
giving me an opportunity to participate in this
workshop and to tell the observed situation and
feeling of earth quake during tsunami days . At
the time of tsunami I alongwith my family members
were at Port Blair. the
severest earth quakes due tsunami and experienced
the practical situation near death. Here I shall
tell my experience facing near death.
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• We have faced one of the severest earth quakes
  due tsunami and experienced the practical
  situation near death. Here I shall tell my
  experience facing near death.
• On 25th December 2004 I alongwith my family
  members i.e. my mother, wife and son, reached
  Port Blair Airport at around 12 noon and then
  went to Holiday Resort Hotel situated at
  Delanipur in the city of Port Blair. We stayed at
  the 2nd Floor (top floor). It is a hilly area,
  very near sea beach but high from the beach
  level.

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We then went to Corbines cove beach enjoyed
there with water . More than one hour we spent
there. Our feelings were so much pleasant on
ocean water never thought that this pleasant
water will become a furious tomorrow (!). From
there we went to cellular jail and back to hotel
room. For tomorrow our programme was first
visit Marina beach, sea coral in the morning and
other places in the afternoon. On 26th Dec
morning it was around 6-15 AM we are ready,
transport will come to pick up us.
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On that time we received a telephone call from
the driver of that transport scheduled to come
----I am coming with the car within 5 minutes
as because I have to drop one family at the
airport.I said ok. At the time of keeping
handsaet my son said--- daddy, hotel is
vibrating.I said no, no.Before ending my
word no, our hotel started to oscillate so
severely, tremendously that it is not possible to
stand still.
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I then told sit down on the floor. Within a few
second we see the whole building is vibrating so
violently that the standing almirah, TV, Table,
chairs, utensils all fall down on the floor with
heavy sound. Sitting on the floor we were so
helpless that we can not express. Immediately,
the walls are separated from the column, leaning
so much with each oscillation of earth quake
vibration that at any moment all walls would fall
down over our body and burried these us. But it
is not so. In each time walls are coming to us
and then go back, just like coming and going with
each oscillation of earthquake.
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The situation was like that----a) we are sure
that we all die on falling wall on us,b)
although, I my mother, wife, son are very close
to each other but unable to hold one another,c)
my feeling was that my mother, wife and son will
die in front of my eye, but I am so helpless,d)
similar feelings also for other members of my
family.As the vibration becoming more and more
with extreme stage my wife told me some how we
have to go out of this room.Somehow holding
hands of my mother, wife and son we came near the
stair and finally came down
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Coming down and sitting on road we saw ---

• The hotel building is oscillating so violently
  that it
• extends nearly few feets on both sides,
• Cracked spots on road, road is divided into two
  
• portion in the middle,
• car, other vehicles parked on road sides have
  been
• sliped down, sometimes voulted up, etc.
• Overhead syntax water tank fall down.
• All men are running to take shelter at open
  space.
• The peculiarity is that no tree we had seen
  uprooted, no lamp post fall down.

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Within 5minutes the oscillations became slower
and slower and gradually we became
normal. Meanwhile Police Patrolling van announced
that no one can enter the house as because
several earth quakes will occur. Not only that
they announced the news of 30-40 ft tsunami waves
( better to mention that police tell the word sea
waves, although most of us did not heard the
word tsunami) washed out all the things such as
men, animal, car, rikshaw whatever were on the
path of the tsunami waves. They also warned that
another big earth quake will occur at today night
2 Oclock. So, all will be at outside the house.
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• We were on the road upto 10 AM and request our
  travel agent to provide a transport so that we
  can see the tsunami effect.
• On the way what we see that
• All roads, area, are full of mud,
• Almost 20 ft waves are still ,jetty broken,
• Every thing dismantled, boats are on reverse
  side,
• No water, no food is available,
• All are hunting for food, water
• So pathetic that can not be expressed, only
  one can

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• We stayed Port Blair upto 30th December and back
  to Calcutta on 31st December.
• During our stayed at Port Blair and even today
  also some questions are still coming in our mind
  but the answer we dont know
• A) If the transport would come in time naturally
  we were on the beach. Naturally, myself and whole
  my family definitely washed out by tsunami waves
  (i.e. sure death),
• B) Why leaning walls, though they are separated
  from the column, not falling on us in spite of
  coming to us and going back during each
  oscillation,

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• C) The situation we faced and what we realised
  that definitely there is some extraordinary
  power, whether we can say it as God or any other
  form.
• D) Tsunami affected earth quake is purely
  nonlinear.

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