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...