As was the entire article. The Asian Earthquake happened before he Starquake's energy burst arrived.
correction: "before THE ...."
Not saying the article is correct, but the radiation emitted is what was reported on that day, that is the what we could measure.
The event would have occurred 50,000 years ago.
One could theorize that something not measured by our sats could have come before the radiation. Kinda like the pressure wave before the light of the explosion and not after,as is the case with the speed of sound in air.
The closeness of the two events is all that is needed for speculation.
Which was the question raised by the article. And speculation is all it is. But interesting, none the less.
In order to say the earthquake occurred before the radiation arrived, we have to be on exactly the same time stamp. A few hours of difference, and even a day difference is not unusual when mixing GMT and various local time stamps.
So who knows......