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.
Rahein Reviewed by Rahein on . Asia Quake's Tsunamis Kill Over 11,000 "All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, said Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute. Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi said the quake even disturbed the Earth's rotation. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20041226/ap_on_re_as/indonesia_earthquake_44 Rating: 5