Yes and no. India and Thailand both have plenty of money to install this sort of technology, for starters. It's a question of priorities.

To put this in perspective though, one need only look at some of the earthquake casualty statistics from the 20th century:

70,000 dead in the Messina, Italy quake of 7.2 magnitude Dec 28, 1908.

200,000 dead in the Ningxia-Kansu, China quake of 8.96 magnitude Dec 16, 1920.

143,000 dead in the Kanto, Japan quake of 7.9 magnitude Sept 1, 1923.

200,000 dead in the Tsinghai, China quake of 7.9 magnitude May 22, 1927.

32,700 dead in the Erzincan, Turkey quake of 7.8 magnitude Dec 26, 1939.

66,000 dead in the Peru quake of 7.9 magnitude May 31, 1970.

255,000 dead in the Tangshan, China quake of 7.5 magnitude July 27, 1976.

Certainly the last two I mention above are well within the memory of most Mudcatters. Which begs the question, why do remember the Alaska earthquake that killed 125 people instead, but not those above?