That seems up next in Nature's Thiruvilayaadal.

Atleast Professor John McCloskey feels "comfortable" talking about a significant increase in the risk of another quake. Today's X-Factor ran this story. (How appropriate a title for this one!)

After a call with Prof. McCloskey, NDTV spoke to Mr. Kapil Sibal. Was surprised to learn that our response times have improved from an hour (March'05) to 20-25 minutes now. Seems, after the Sep. 2007 installation of a "world-class" tsunami warning system, this time will reduce to less than 10 minutes.

Prof. McCloskey is considered a world authority on Environmental Sciences and his team is supposed to have predicted the previous big earthquakes in Sumatra. To be noted is the fact that, one can only say that an earthquake seems highly likely in a place and not when! (Hmmm... The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle? That can wait for now... will post later)

So, keep your fingers crossed and escape the next tsunami!

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Tim Berners Lee blogs!

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...Yet another example of the short nature of public memory. I donno how many of you remember that earthquake that happened in Pak, PoK & Jammu recently. And that it is freezing sub zero winter in those places now and there are some people who don't even have some sort of shelter there... We need the (responsible and ethical) media!

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G's Webclips has bowled me over. How efficient news reading & mail checking have become! And I feel, Google Reader itself would be obviated because of this. And then, Google has already released the 2005 Zeitgeist.

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