I do agree that the human capabilities are far limited as compared natures super power. But things can be controlled, if and only if we plan the urban areas keeping in mind the worst conditions that can be desasterous to human well being like that of earthquakes/ksunami/thunderstorms etc. The designing of the city roads/drianages/utility systems should be able to withstand or bypass all such type of unseen challenges.
Our disaster management system just become helpless for such kind of catastrophies. One can see the kind of helplessness expressed by our own wellwishers when it comes to natural disasters. Why did not we forecast such kind of a disastrous rainfall and awareness to people to be safe.
Now at least we have learnt from the nature itself that no one is safe from the natural disasters, and it is now our utmost priority to see that we plan to save ourselves by designing a robust systems which could withstand such type of natural calamities.
