[Graybeard58]

I suspect that after this occurence that most of those Asian nations won't need much prodding from the UN or anybody else to get some kind of warning system in place.

It's just sad that it takes a tragedy like this to get their attention to a problem that has always existed.

A 15 minute warning could possibly have saved hundreds of lives and my understanding of tsunamis is that in some cases warnings are available hours before the tsunami actually hits land.

[Nataku X]

From what I understand, they did detect the possibility of a tsunami but didn't want to hurt the tourism industry so they purposefully didn't issue the warning.