You can never be too prepared, especially when you don't know what disaster to expect.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2828035/People-tend-think-tin-hat-wearing-crazies-just-regular-people-Australian-preppers-explain-convinced-disaster-sure-happen-prepared.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1833_Sumatra_earthquake#Tsunami ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1861_Sumatra_earthquake
"The screen is filled by the shot of a towering ocean wave, though it remains unclear whether we are witnessing reality or sharing in Burton's final, apocalyptic premonition."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Wave#Plot 1977
http://www.criterion.com/films/685-the-last-wave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss#Special_Edition 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD3vOduCwu0 ,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/alternateversions ,
http://www.scifimoviepage.com/abysspec.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/18/t1390028-mega-tsunami ,
Its too bad that this scene wasn't included in the films initial release.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss#History_of_the_Special_Edition
Although not as serious as whats depicted in some movies, there still was almost 300,000 people killed from it.
"Health Minister Fadilah Supari said more than 220,000 people died or are missing, bringing the total killed throughout the region to 280,000."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4204385.stm
If something like this ever happens on an even larger scale, millions of people could easily be killed.
wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami#Death_toll_and_casualties ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll#Ten_worst_natural_disasters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster#2008:_Tsunami_study_ignored ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami#Tsunami
Of course, the earthquake_and_tsunami_damage_and_effects could have been much worse.
There is always the potential of an earthquake_and_tsunami too kill millions of people.
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/spacegd.html
http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2010/11/barackobaumuns-rendezvous-with-rama.html
"Clarke invented the space study program which detects Rama, Project Spaceguard, as a method of identifying near-Earth objects on Earth-impact trajectories; in the novel it was initiated after an asteroid struck Italy on 11 September 2077..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama#Project_Spaceguard
Oblivion is set in the year 2077.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivion_(2013_film)#Plot ,
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3357385472/tt1483013?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_27
The movie provides a very interesting depiction of what some A.I. drones could be like in the not too distant future. Yes, long before 2077.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEby9OkePpg
Its quite an entertaining movie, but not everyone is happy with its imperfections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGa-fWdXmyU
http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
A lot of myths, books & movies warn of the possibility of some global catastrophe.
http://mvextra.blogspot.ca/2014/12/the-deep-impact-of-hidden-history-and.html
