The “Tsunami Alerts “ means sleep in the streets

On September 12, an 8.2 magnitude earthquake shook Indonesia. The earthquake epicentered right off the coast of Sumatra, rattled buildings as far away as Jakarta, Malaysia and Thailand. At least three people were killed, with many more injured by falling buildings. A tsunami alert was issued for the area and a 2 foot high tsunami was reported at Padang, Sumatra. A tsunami watch has been posted by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center for the 24 countries surrounding the Indian Ocean including Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen and Kenya.

In Chennai, the police used the public address system to warn residents close to the seashore about the possibility of a tsunami occurring after the high intensity quake in Sumatra, as did district administration officials in Cuddalore.Fishermen were warned against venturing into sea. In Ramanathapuram, yet another coastal district, tourists were warned to stay away from the seashore. There were reports of people in a section of the villages, including Valinokkam and Erwadi being moved to safer places.

But information centres set up in eight villages registered no increase in the height of the waves, water current and wind speed.

It’s not the first time the People living in the coastal area under went such a chaotic situation and nightmares, ever since the Dec 24 incident many costal villages refused to sleep in their "home", children had nightmares there was a drastic change in their social behaviors and there was a steep drop down in their academic performance. The “Tsunami Alerts “continues to fuel their fear of Tsunami in the minds of the coastal population.

On the other hand the coastal parts of Tamil Nadu are filled with Non governmental Organizations and its sign boards.From the most popular NGO of the world to the world to the newest one, thousands of NGO's have opened their stalls and fighting to portray their rehabilitation work in the mass media, they are in to rehabilitation work at all the level from temporary shelters to the permanent ones, community building to restoring livelihoods but yet there is no scientific approach to educate the Tsunami as it is followed in Tsunami porn places like Hawaii

The joint effort of NGO,Government and the community has to work closely to make the people to know about the scientific facts about the Tsunami. creating fear and nightmare will only result in creating more confusion like the last night