Chris,

Thanks for the link. This reminded me of a personal story told to me recently by a friend. He owned two homes in Sri Lanka and the tsunami ate one of them. He bought a piece of beach front property to build a resort and the tsunami ate the land. His family member bought a place to run a bed and breakfast and invested her entire life savings and the tsunami ate it.

Of the things we think about prior to earthquakes and tsunami's I don't think many of us ever think about the very land where something was or was planned to be, taken away. It certainly isn't something that happens frequently. But the same was so in Turnigan Heights in Alaska during the 1964 quake when a slow moving landslide took an entire subdivision more than a mile from where it was. And places near Loma Prieta where fissures opened up as much as a yard or so wide and never closed.

Some people and places in and around Indonesia have been changed forever and unfortunately it looks as though more is in the offing.

Petra