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EXPERT : SINGAPORE NOT TSUNAMI-PROOF
Batam, Riau province, Sept 20 (ANTARA) - Singapore is not at all free from the risk of being devastated by a tsunami, an expert from the National Geography Department of the University of Singapore, Professor Wong Poh Poh, said here Saturday.
"It doesn't take a tidal wave as high as the one that engulfed Aceh to destroy many key infrastructures in Singapore," he said in a talk with Channel News Asia monitored by Antara here.
Almost four years ago (December 26, 2008), a tsunami (10m high) hit Aceh and killed 168,000 people.
The problem in Singapore, said Wong, was that most of its infrastructures were located near beaches.
"It will only take a low tidal wave to hit and destroy those infrastructures and the areas around them," he said.
Prof Wong said Singapore's international airport (Changi) could be easily destroyed by a tsunami, and so could housing complexes in the Petrokimia area, Jurong Island.
Besides Singapore, tourist resorts and residential areas on Batam Island's beaches (about 20 km from Changi and Jurong were also vulnerable to the destructive force of a tsunami, he said.
"It doesn't take a tidal wave as high as the one that engulfed Aceh to destroy many key infrastructures in Singapore," he said in a talk with Channel News Asia monitored by Antara here.
Almost four years ago (December 26, 2008), a tsunami (10m high) hit Aceh and killed 168,000 people.
The problem in Singapore, said Wong, was that most of its infrastructures were located near beaches.
"It will only take a low tidal wave to hit and destroy those infrastructures and the areas around them," he said.
Prof Wong said Singapore's international airport (Changi) could be easily destroyed by a tsunami, and so could housing complexes in the Petrokimia area, Jurong Island.
Besides Singapore, tourist resorts and residential areas on Batam Island's beaches (about 20 km from Changi and Jurong were also vulnerable to the destructive force of a tsunami, he said.
