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The Padang earthquake and tsunami was predicted by scientists back in 2005 but did the Indonesian government do anything? Prevention is impossible, but risk mitigating measures could have been implemented, were there any?
News as reported 4 years back on Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 22:32 GMT
Source: Read the original prediction here - BBC
News Report: Scientist voice tsunami concern. By Jonathan Amos BBC News science reporter, San Francisco A US scientist studying the islands off southern Sumatra says it is very clear the region can expect more big quakes and tsunami in the coming decades.
Prof Kerry Sieh is using a GPS network to monitor land movements close to the great fault line that ruptured to produce last December's disaster.
His work indicates there is still huge strain bound up in the fault, and that this could let go in the near future.
He believes the cities of Padang and Bengkulu may be at greatest risk.
"The time is now to start mitigating for such an event," said Kerry Sieh, who is attached to the California Institute of Technology's Tectonics Observatory.
"I don't know with certainty that it's going to happen but our team is telling people on the coast that they have to expect that this will happen in the lifetime of their children."
