Coastal Hazards in Pakistan

For this week's I will talk about the Coastal Hazards in Pakistan. Coastal areas are dynamic environments that vary in their topography, climate, and organisms by which in these areas continental and oceanic process converge to produce landscapes that are capable of rapid change, also topography is greatly influenced by tectonic plates (Keller 366).

Pakistan's longest coastline is Balochistan 771kms while the total length of the coastal area is 1100km and the coastal areas are in the province of Sindh and Balochism. The only coastal problem I could find is about flooding in Karachi which I have already talked about. But I did find a Coastal Hazard early warming system in Pakistan (Gap Analysis) for tsunami and cyclone in the coastal area of Balochistan and Sindh. If a large earthquake were to occur off the coast of Pakistan and triggered a tsunami, residents of fishing villages would to act quickly in order to escape. An earlier incident from tsunami caused by a earthquake in this region in November 1945 claimed hundreds of lives and many of the fatalities occurred along the coast of Indus river Delta, today many of the villagers can only be reached by boat, also telecommunications are limited. These circumstances add to the challenge of alerting the local people of the danger coming their way. The limitations of early warming dissemination systems in the coastal belt of Pakistan has not been a dream idea. Besides the old system I couldn't find any modern system that the country uses today to prevent these mistakes or to warm the locals.

Work Cited

https://reliefweb.int

http://www.einfopedia.com

KELLER, EDWARD A.. DEVECCHIO, DUANE E. NATURAL HAZARDS: earths processes as hazards, disasters, and catastrophes (fourth edition).