At total or at least partial crock. After a 9.0 underseas quake, tsunamis follow. Every government in the area should have put every coastal community under alert. and for that matter, every coastal community mayor or whatever should have done the same thing. And furthermore, every tourist hotel manager should have warned tourists.
I caught the tail end of a Nightline interview with some idiot climatologist from U Hawaii who claimed they had alerted "every country who subscribed to our system but the infrastructure wasn't in place to alert other countries." Words to that effect, anyway, which made me blow my top! The idiots couldn't have picked up a phone? Liberal bureaucrats killed thousands of people, IMO, through their unwillingness to use their common sense.
Meanwhile, an organization I know of personally has an outpost on the beach in Kerala, India. Members contacted them by phone from the US, gave them the head's up, and they saved every one of the 2500 people in their compound, even the pet elephants, which were guided upstairs into a strong building.
Can you give us a clue as to who the geniuses are?