[Quix]

AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!

Sometimes I think naysayers have a serious chronic disease--

TERMINAL ARROGANCE.

[airborne]

The Caltech geology professor had studied the history of giant earthquakes just south of the epicenter for about a decade and knew full well the damage such a major quake in that part of the world could inflict.

I'm sorry, but is it that surprising to expect that, over the course of a decade, that an area prone to tsunamis would have one?

IMHO, it took a catastrophe for people to accept a relative certainty.

In other words, it was bound to happen, but until it did, the average person will choose to live in denial.