Just to its northwest, in Banda Aceh, 160,000 lives were lost in the 2004 tsunami. Now, geologists say, the fault that triggered that tsunami is most likely to rupture farther south, putting low-lying coastal towns like Padang, with a population of 900,000, at high risk of a major earthquake and tsunami within the next 30 years.
巴东就属于这样的弱势群体。就在巴东西北方的班达亚齐，160，000人在2004年海啸中丧生。现在地质学家认为导致那次海啸的地质断层最有可能继续向南断裂，致使拥有900,000人口的巴东这样的低洼沿海城镇很可能在未来30年发生海啸和大地震。