well, since the entire movement of water was seafloor to seasurface,
couldn't it have messed up underwater ecosystems as much as shoreline
ones?
also, i was thinking of all the things this tsunami could do for future
generations: it has ruined ecosystems by covering them with sand
(making
fossils?); we know people have been found out in the water, perhaps
some
small animals is currently drifting towards an island to start a new
line
of something; people now have to migrate due to the destruction of
their
ecosystem as well (altho there's not a lot of places to go now), but
maybe
this is how we got all around the world, natural disasters forcing us
to
move. altho the loss of life is horrid, from a long-term view, it's
amazing. i suspect this is how the legends of world floods got
started,
as well. who knows, 10,000 years from now, this will be another
legend.