The enery from a quake like this is much more then anything man could do.

NPS said this morning that the quake caused a part of the Berma plate 600 miles long 100s of feet wide to raise between 10-15 feet. I could not even comprehend how much enegy that this would take. An early warning system could have detected the raise of a few inches out at sea an hour before the wave hit shore. People could have gotten at least a few miles inland in that time by foot. Sure their homes would have still been destroyed, but the loss of life would have been greatly reduced.