How do we protect people and property from such major disasters?
It is unlikely that the world can predict and design the mechanism to provide protection for such major natural disasters. Tsunami is not a predictable happening. Where and when it might happen is unpredictable, and unmanageable. Governments such as India or Sri Lanka will not be able to afford a huge wall around their coasts to protect from a future Tsunami. Even if a wall was built around the coastline it will cause more damage in destroying the natural and commercial aspects of the existing populations. Protections from a tsunami or a volcano is practical impossibility and perhaps the best measures are trying to move populations away from the most dangerous areas that might be effected by these natural disasters. The world always will have bigger and greater disasters as the population grows and people keep thinking that the bad stuff only happens to someone else. As long as Mother Nature has her way natural disasters will happen. So next time a Tsunami of this magnitude happens the
