Dr. Sidney F. Borg, Founding Director of Kreisler Borg Florman, and the former Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology wrote a pioneering book on earthquake engineering. This book explains a great deal about the Tsunami in Southeast Asia. Robert F. Borg, Founding Chairman of Kreisler Borg Florman, in the letter below, describes this phenomenom and the relationship between it and the earthquake engineering research that was done by his brother, Dr. Sidney F. Borg.