Hooya - that is complete nonsense. News travels fast even in those countries and nearly all in Thailand have TV's and mobiles as do many in India and Sri Lanka.
Where do you think they watch Cricket ffs?
People really are naive to say nothing could be done, if people were warned we would not be counting tens of thousands of bodies. It would only have been a couple of hours that people need stay away if nothing happened.
How would you feel if a meteor hit your house and no f'cker told you even though they knew it was on it's way?
Obviously you never find out.