The Tsunami was predicted and warned about!

I was floored when I read this article. At first I thought someone was just trying to get some media hype but the man is a genious who deserves the attention. His name is Kerry Sieh and he claims that he had been trying to get the attention of officials in Asia for months prior to handing out flyers and putting up posters which warned of the tsunami. He is a professor of geology at California Institute of Technology. The school website has this to say about it:

In Sumatra: Notes From a Geologist in the Field UPDATED 1/7/05
For more than a decade, Kerry Sieh, the Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and a member of the Tectonic Observatory, has studied the Sumatran subduction zone. Last summer he and his colleagues distributed brochures to people living on nearby islands to explain the area's geology and suggest ways to limit future damage. Sieh recently returned to Indonesia, and in these e-mailed messages, presents his observations following the Aceh earthquake.

Kudo's to Kerry (never thought I'd be saying that...)!