Missing Tsunami

Damp Squib registers 8.7 on the Murdoch Scale. The media are barely able to disguise their disappointment that there wasn't another killer wave speeding around the Indian Ocean at Boeing speed last night. But the pyschological damage wreaked by yesterday's sequel may ultimately be significant. British visits to Guatemala are already up 20% since Boxing Day. Yesterday's apparent non-event should bang a few more nails into the coffin of Far East tourism, something which Central and South America, and Mexico in particular, stand to benefit from.