Thiruvananthapuram: When the rain fell in regency hilly areas such as Idukki and Wayanad, the government has warned of landslides near Munnar, based on sensors that can detect landslides.
Taking instructions from last year’s pettimudy disaster, the government moved residents from the area.
Wireless Network and Application Center (CWNA), under a university that is considered Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has provided a report to Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) which has detected possible landslides near the Anthoniar colony in Munonar.
“The first-level regional warning for landslides using global specific rainfall thresholds and sites has been crossed.
So we asked residents to be alert and alert about the situation in the Munnar region.
First-level warnings show that there is a possibility of landslides in landslide-prone areas around the location Our placement in the Anthoniar colony, Munnar, “said Analysis report by Maneesha V Ramesh, Director of the Landslide Center of the KSDMA and also members of the KSDMA landslide counselor.
committee.
Reports, prepared after analyzing rainfall, said that in certain locations, the threshold has been passed to reach the second level.
“We can see the surface slowly lose their strength because the pore pressure in the vulnerable layer has shown a stable increase of 27.95% in the last 24 days.
It can cause land slip inside and around the site.
Therefore if the rain continues at the level This or further increase, the probability of land slips and landslides can begin in the nearest area.
Therefore, caution and constant vigilance are recommended, “he said.
On the basis of the report, the administration of the Idukki District has transferred the population in the Anthoniar colony and Ikka Nagar (other colonies nearby) to a safer location.
“We received a warning about this from the country’s emergency operation center.
We have shifted 44 people living in the area to secure camps and 114 other people moved to their relatives’ homes in a safer area,” said Sheeba George, IDKKI district collector , CWNA has developed and used a wireless sensor network for landslide detection consisting of more than 100 geological sensors and more than 10 wireless sensor nodes in six locations in the Munnar area.
This system, functional since 2009, monitor site deployment, collect and transmit data all the time.
Landslides in August 2020 in Petttimudy near Munnar had claimed 70 lives (66 confirmed to die and four bodies still disappeared).
The district government has also searched for the services of the second team of the National Disaster Response (NDRF) next to the team in the district.
Checked that the government had sanctioned the second team.