Was Tsunami a punishment for people's bad behavior (bad karma)?

On CNN today, I saw a reporter interviewing a Buddhist monk of a destroyed temple. The report was said to show the Buddhist explanation for the Tsunami. The monk said that the Tsunami was the nature's way of punishing people for their bad behavior. In other words, the monk meant to say that there is a all mighty power which he referred to as the nature. This is similar to the concept of an all mighty god. That power has punished the people. In other words there is a universal accountant who would calculate the sins and merits of each individual and the all mighty power has punished the people for their bad behavior. (bad karma.) So the answer to the question of why this Tsunami happened was that people had done bad things and the nature (something like an all mighty god) has punished the people. According to CNN this was the Buddhist answer or Buddhist explanation for the Tsunami. (This has a striking resemblance to the story of Noah where the god destroyed the entire world with a flood because the god was angry with the people for their bad behavior. So according to CNN, the Buddhist philosophy is in line with the Bible, isn't it? Also there was an article written by a Sri Lankan Muslim with a satellite photo of Kaluthara beech showing the receding waves saying that Allah has punished the people for their bad behavior and written Alla's name in Arabic on the beach. This is also in line with the explanation given by the Buddhist monk.) This explanation given by that monk is utter bull shit. This is an insult to all good people who died in this disaster. This monk is an ignorant laymen who doesn't even know the basic fundamentals of Buddhism. But CNN chose to interview that monk and broadcast that interview all around the world portraying the Buddhists of Sri Lanka as a group of ignorant, stone age, stupid bunch of religious nuts who are no better than the Taliban.

So how do you explain the Tsunami according to Buddhism? In Buddhism there are 5 categories of explanations for the things that happen. They are
1.Irthu niyaama - These are seasonal changes. eg. Day night, spring summer autumn winter, etc.
2.Biija niyaama – Things happening because of a seed that has been planted. eg. A bridge was built with one faulty strut. The bridge collapses after 25 years because of that faulty strut. A man gets a cancer at the age of 85 because of a gene he inherited from his father when he was born.
3.Dhamma niyaama – Laws of nature. Earth quakes, Tsunamis, etc. These are not affected by anything else other than the nature itself. In modern science, theory of chaos explains this. There are too many parameters to consider in too little time making it impossible to exactly predict what would happen. In a storm, if you want to predict exactly which way the storm would go, you need to analyze all the forces of attraction between all the particles in the air. (This is what caused the Tsunami.)
4.Kamma (karma) niyaama – Something happening as a result of the action of an individual. eg. You are driving on the road and make a u turn without looking at the rear view mirror. Another car crashes in to your car and you loose your leg. You kill somebody and you go to prison for 20 years. This is the most mis interpreted niyaama in Buddhism. A lot of people believe that everything that happens to an individual is based on the karma. If that is the case then how did it all begin? This kind of bad interpretation has come from Hinduism where everything is supposed to go in a cycle without a beginning or an end. So everything is base on past karma. According to Buddhism, karma is only one out of 5 reasons for something to happen.
5.Chiththa niyaama – Something that a person does based on his own free will. You kill somebody. This doesn't mean that this murder was based on past karma of the one who died. You could have killed a totally innocent person. This is the most powerful niyaama that governs your own fate (fate is just a figure of speech here). You can decide what happens to you. But you may get affected by other niyaamas.

Some times, more than one niyaama plays a role in the outcome of something. If we take the death of a person who was killed in this Tsunami, obviously dhamma niyaama caused the Tsunami. But the action of that person, the decision of that person for being near the beech (let's assume that he lived 50 km inland and went to meet his friend who lived near the beech) also played a part on his death. That second cause was kamma niyaama. But that doesn't mean that this karma was a bad deed that that is punishable by death.

So please don't try to find complicated, divine, mysterious explanations when simple, logical, realistic, logical explanations are right under your nose.