The movie was completely unrealistic, it was made from the point of view of americans so nothing is recorded about any other places. Australia for example has an inland sea, are you trying to tell me that nothing became of that? Also during the movie when you saw the weatehr monitering equipment it showed Australia doing farely well. Now Australia is way down south... in the Northen Hemisphere they had to go south to avoid being killed. So in the Southern hemisphere wouldnt they have to go north? Also it was improbable and the panic displayed by citizens was fake. The kind of mentality in 'War of the Worlds' would have fit in better.