Early warning? Ask Nicobar's stone-agers
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - Stone-age tribes living on India's remote Andaman and
Nicobar Islands not only survived the devastating December 26 tsunami -
triggered by an undersea quake whose epicenter was close to their
homelands - but may actually have a few lessons in reading natural
early-warning systems for their less perceptive Asian neighbors, say
scientists.
While close to 150,000 people have been confirmed dead on the coasts of
a dozen countries around the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea after
being caught unaware by giant killer waves, the Onges, Jarawas,
Sentinalese and Great Andamanese who live in the archipelago escaped
unscathed because they took to the forests and higher ground well in time.
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