Lack of emergency infrastructure renders French blogger helpless

Loic Le Meur's blog has this to say:

Philsland (in French) is a subscriber to an earthquake prevention alert: USGS earthquake. He was warned about the earthquake three hours before the waves touched the coasts:

"A great earthquake occurred at 00:58:49 (UTC) on Sunday, December 26, 2004. The magnitude 9.0 event has been located OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)"

It's shocking that Philsland is not alone, there are countless stories similar to his, and yet nothing was done!