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MIT's Tsunami Safe(r) house
Interesting work is taking place in the States. The inetent seems to be, that for a place like Sri Lanka, rather than move the population 200 metres inland (causing all sorts of ownership problems), instead design cheap houses that will better withstand the waves.
http://senseable.mit.edu/tsunami-prajnopaya/
http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20050531.121328&time=12 23 PDT&year=2005&public=1
According to a simulation by Buro Happold engineers (London), the final low-tech-construction, high-tech-design structures should be over five times more resistant than the existing ones in the case of an incoming tsunami.
http://senseable.mit.edu/tsunami-prajnopaya/
http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20050531.121328&time=12 23 PDT&year=2005&public=1
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