[smalltown]

No, but my point is that the NOAA press release cited by Calpernia appears, at first glance, to indicate that NOAA warned the Indian Ocean nations in advance of the Tsunami.
The timeline makes it clear that they didn't.
I think that the press release is misleading.

[jpsb]

There is nothing in the Indian Ocean run by the USA to forewarn of a Tsunami, there is however a pretty good system in the Pacific, run by mainly by the Japanese to warn of a Tsunami.