Tragic Tidal Wave Hits Asia (click)

"The Associated Press Updated: 1:59 p.m. ET Dec. 26, 2004 JAKARTA, Indonesia - The world’s most powerful earthquake in 40 years struck deep under the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra on Sunday, triggering tidal waves up to 20 feet high that obliterated villages and seaside resorts in six countries across southern Asia. Nearly 10,000 people were killed in the devastation, and the death toll was expected to rise."
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After effects include DISTURBING THE EARTH's ROTATION
AND
afterschocks with magnitude 7.3 (the size of regularly bad earthquakes).

if someone (not nameing any names) were in the least bit cynical, they might call this
FORESHADOWING.

but who could that be?