Originally Posted by KRL

OK, a 9.0 earthquake hits under the ocean. A 9.0 is equal to 30 Billion tons of TNT going off. Doesn't take a genius to figure out you're going to have some very huge tidal waves all over the place quickly thereafter. It took up to 2 hours for the Tsunamis to hit.

Even without a formal Tsunami warning system in place over there why didn't the US Government or US Military or other technologically advanced countries issue an instant worldwide emergency alert to all these country's governments so they could alert the tourist hotels to get people off the beach and inland fast?

Someone fucked up bigtime on this.