Tsunami's and Tectonic Plates

On Tuesday 29th September a tsunami hit Samoa, home to 65,000 people. 

The magnitude of the earthquake that resulted in the Samoan tsunami was between 8 and 8.3, the Telegraph reported. The epicentre was just off of Samoa and Tonga, both very small islands. The Sun reported that after 3 and half hours it would hit Hawaii, after 6 hours the East coast of Australia and after 9 hours the West Coast of America. This was one tsunami that to this moment I am writing has killed 145 people and is still on the rise as they pull 'bloated corpses' from the ocean. There have been nearly 20 villages completely flattened, the Telegraph reported.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/samoa/6253376/Samoa-tsunami-rescue-workers-begin-to-give-up-hope-of-finding-more-survivors.html

On the same day Sumatra felt the huge tremors of the earthquake that caused the Samoa tsunami. On Wednesday the 1st October another earthquake hit an all ready devastated Sumatra. Hitting the richter scale at 6.9. At the moment it is confirmed that 1,300 people have died in Sumatra. About 3,000 more people have been confirmed as missing in the rubble too.

After these quakes, are we to expect more? The countries affected don't have much in way of possessions and buildings, their homes have been completely flattened by the huge change in the tectonic plates below them; and now many of them are homeless and without family members.

All together there are just under 1,500 people dead, more to be expected as they are pulled from the rubble and the sea. This also reminds me of the boxing day disaster that hit Thailand in 2004. It killed 230,000 people, some of which were in Africa, 5,000 miles away from the epicentre. It reached a 9.3 on the richter scale and was recorded as the 'single most devastating tsunami in history.'

We live in this world where there are constant worries of tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes, the fear is however that they are getting worse and proving to be happening a lot more. The two earthquakes in Samoa and Sumatra were within 28 hours of each other, for example. No one had any warning either. The weather systems in America are trying to improve to give their people more of a chance or survival, but the LEDC's don't have any warning at all. One person who gave a first hand report said only that they heard on the radio only an hour before the tsunami was due to strike, how far could anyone get in an hour from a tsunami racing towards them at a rate miles an hour?