In the wake of the tsunami disaster what has not occurred to the
authorities and the powers that be is that preventive measures
should be adopted and put in place side by side with
reconstruction. All that is reconstructed could be washed off if
there is another tsunami. It is the height of folly to believe
that we cannot be struck by another tsunami. The answer is not
only to run away, protecting our lives, but also to protect our
property and belongings. We have missed the woods for the trees,
and lulled ourselves into a state of complacency that there
could not be another tsunami for quite sometime. We are wrong.
We could have been hit by the quake of 28/03/05 if it developed
into a tsunami, particularly as the quake registered 8.7 on the
Richter Scale. We are becoming increasingly vulnerable to
tsunamis, as there is a tectonic plate developing just 300Km
south of Sri Lanka, and as there is a grave possibility of the
Australian plate and the 'Sundar' plate coming into collision.
It is impossible for scient