Andaman and Nicobar Islands: facilitating India's connectivity in the Bay of Bengal

Maritime order and connectivity in the Indian Ocean: the renewed significance of the Bay of Bengal

“…The Bay of Bengal is also infamous for its turbulence and frequently experiences cyclones. Tsunamis are also frequent here as the Andaman Sea part of the Bay is home to the Andaman-Sumatra Subduction Zone, a seismic activity prone area along the mutually jostling European and Indo-Australian tectonic plates (Basu, Bose, & Basu Ray Chaudhury, 2019). The resultant earthquakes frequently trigger Tsunamis, the most intense and devastating of which had been witnessed in 2004.…”