CCTV network for tsunami forecast.

In view of the ensuing by-election in the R.K. Nagar Constituency, Chennai, the Election Commission has announced that it has put in place important measures like surveillance of vehicles and people’s movements through surveillance cameras and the process of voting will be telecast.

Similarly, the tsunami waves approaching the Indian shores may be detected one hour before they strike by watching the coastal areas of Andaman Islands through surveillance cameras.

This is because, the tsunami which formed in the Island of Sumatra on 26.12.2006, struck the Great Nicobar Island, which is situated at hundred kilometers from Sumatra, within half an hour before striking Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka one and a half hours later.

It is worth noting that around a hundred and thirty years ago, on 27.8.1883, similar tsunami waves generated in the Sumatra Island region, struck the Great Nicobar Island in just half an hour.

After this, they struck Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka only one and a half hours later.

No one can rule out similar incidents in future.

Hence, like the surveillance measures being adopted at R.K. Nagar to watch the polling booths and monitor the movements of vehicles and people there through surveillance cameras, it is imperative that the coastal areas of the Great Nicobar Island should also be watched through surveillance cameras.

This move will enable us to detect tsunamis which approach India, one hour before they strike.
Based on this, people living in the coastal areas could be saved from the tsunami threat by alerting them about the approaching danger one hour in advance.