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  • Tsunami evacuation drill held in Patong, Phuket

    Tsunami evacuation drill held in Patong, Phuket

    The siren sounded, a tsunami was on the way and people had to evacuate from Phuket’s Patong Beach. Some people were so enthusiastic about the practice drill they started running from the beach before the siren was even sounded

  • Tsunami advisory for Andaman Coast – all clear

    Tsunami advisory for Andaman Coast – all clear

    An advisory was sent out last night about two earth tremors registering 5.0 and 5.2 magnitude centered on the Andaman Islands, 620 kilometres north west of Phuket. The  National Disaster Warning Centre  sent out an advisory to Governors of six Andaman Coast provinces to be on alert for tsunami warnings and more earthquake activity. There has been no tsunami activity registered along the Andaman coastlines.

  • Toll rises, officials warn of potential for more tsunamis

    Toll rises, officials warn of potential for more tsunamis

    Dateline: Tuesday, December 25, 9am (Local Time) A threat looms of more potentially deadly tsunamis in between the island’s of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, this according to the country’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency. 5,600 people are now reported as officially displaced

  • UPDATE: Indonesian Sunda Strait tsunami

    UPDATE: Indonesian Sunda Strait tsunami

    “168 dead and ‘many missing’ after Anak Krakatoa erupts” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesperson for the Indonesian disaster agency has confirmed the Saturday evening tsunami has left at least 168 dead, 745 injured with 30 missing. But he says he expects the death toll to rise since not all the areas which were hit have been reached yet. The worst affected area was the Pandeglang region of Banten province in Java, which encompasses the Ujung Kulon National Park and popular beaches southwest of the capital, Jakarta

  • How was the tsunami reported on the island 13 years ago?

    How was the tsunami reported on the island 13 years ago?

    Imagine sitting in a news office on the morning of December 26, 2004. You’re working as a journalist in Phuket. It was that morning that an earthquake struck an area about 500 kilometres south west of Phuket.