Commiserations to the people of Haiti. As we show solidarity with Haiti, my mind is immediately cast to my beloved Ghana. Natural disasters much as they are undesirable are also inevitable. Therefore, we should be thinking of how ready we are should a disaster strike. It is passive to always wait to respond to disasters rather than acting in readiness. Humanly speaking, it was impossible to avert the Haitian disaster in any way. Haiti sits in the middle of hurricane alley and lies next to a geological fault line. Ghana and in particular Accra is prone to earthquakes. Ghana is located well clear of the major earthquake zones of the earth but nonetheless earthquakes have been known to occur in the vicinity of Accra which has experienced major shocks in 1862, 1906 and 1939 (magnitude 6.4) and numerous smaller ones, the most recent in 1997, 2003 and 2006. Thus there is good evidence of current tectonic activity associated with the Akwapim fault zone and, to a lesser extent, with the great ...