Courtesy - The Sunday Leader By Janith Aranze
Since the earthquake and tsunami disasters which struck Japan last month, attention has turned to how we can restrict the damage natural disasters cause. With over 25,000 people losing their lives in Japan, and after the tsunami which hit South-East Asia in 2004, it seems as though we are defenceless in the face of such adversity.
A Professor at the University of Peradeniya, Professor Athula Senaratne has claimed that he can predict the approximate time and place when an earthquake will strike. It is indeed a ground-breaking concept, as it is widely believed that the technology for predicting earthquakes does not yet exist. Senaratne says he predicted the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Japan on April 7 and also several earthquakes in Indonesia and New Zealand which occurred from April 13th to 19th this year.
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