Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 22 April 2012
To warn or not to warn -- that was the question. On 11 April 2012, following a powerful undersea earthquake, government officials in many Indian Ocean rim countries agonised over this.
The 8.6 magnitude quake occurred at 8.38 UTC (14:08 Sri Lanka Time), 440 km southwest of Banda Aceh in Indonesia and 33 km beneath the ocean floor.
