20th anniversary of the 2004 Tsunami on Phuket in Thailand - 2024
20th anniversary of the 2004 Tsunami on Phuket in Thailand - 2024
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Phuket island was hit by way of a tsunami in 2004 and this unexpected catastrophe caused thousands of deaths. Nobody was prepared for such catastrophe, therefore the number of victims and destructions was huge.
Once the tsunami struck Phuket, all of the major beaches such as for example Patong, Karon, Kata, Kamala and Bangtao were affected.
During the time many expats was supposed to be working in a beach-front Hotel in Patong on Phuket island. The office was down lots of steps, and basically underground and under sea level. Fortunatly it had been boxing day and every expat had a day off, but if they would have been working that day I much more lifes could have been lost, maybe including my own.
Unfortunatly the December 26th boxing day event killed 8,212 people in Thailand and a further 2,817 remain missing, presumed dead.
The Phuket Tsunami Day song recording
7 years following the Tsunami the song ‘Tsunami Day'was wrote and composed in 2011 by ‘Mark Hopkins ', who had been some of those expat who'd a lucky excape. The song was recorded on a 4-track in his bedroom in the UK. The song is about their own personal connection with what happened when he was living in Patong once the Tsunami hit on Boxing day, 2004.
This year (2024) may be the 20th annerversay of the Tsunami.
The Charity
The ‘Coconut Club ', that is run by the ‘Phuket Has Been Good To Us Foundation ', offers a program of on-going leisure and education development activities, that provide weekend and inter-session experiences, to the 130 residential students of the Rachaprachnukroh School in Kamala, Phuket. The residential students are orphans or children whose families are not able to look after them. They rarely, ahead of the Coconut Club was established, had the opportunity to leave the institution grounds or take part in any activity away from routine of these school lives. The Coconut Club enhances not only their English language skills, but additionally stimulates their imagination, experimentation and independent thinking abilities. It gives a safe and comfortable developmental environment, which raises their self-esteem and confidence, permitting them to use and apply what they are learning in their English class with their everyday life.
Donations is likewise used to fund the casual trips to local music concerts and events, to get books, accessories and for educational items for the music and arts classes. There is also a wish listing of items which they urgently need so influenced by donations we want to fund these items also if we can.
The ‘Phuket Has Been Good To Us'Foundation welcomes donations of any size. In the event that you would like to donate please go to the Tsunami Day song for Phuket page and contact them directly from there. We also provide links to 'Phuket Sunshine Village Foundation', which is another charity assisting children left without parents following the tsunami.
More concerning the Tsunami
The tsunami heights recorded in Thailand include…
6–10 metres (20–33 ft) in Khao Lak
3–6 metres (9.8–19.7 ft) across the west coast of Phuket island
3 metres (9.8 ft) across the south coast of Phuket island
2 metres (6 ft 7 in) over the east coast of Phuket island
4–6 metres (13–20 ft) on the Phi Phi Islands
19.6 metres (64 ft) at Ban Thung Dap
5 metres (16 ft) at Ramson
6.8 metres (22 ft) at Ban Thale Nok
5 metres (16 ft) at Hat Praphat (Ranong Coastal Resources Research Station)
6.3 metres (21 ft) at Thai Mueang District
6.8 metres (22 ft) at Rai Dan
The particular seismic event that caused the tsunamis across the Indian Ocean was an undersea earthquake with a size of between 9.1 – 9.3 that struck off the north coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
The fault lines that suddenly shifted ran about 1,000 kilometres from nearby the northern tip of Sumatra, north to the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, having its epicentre south-west of the northern tip of Sumatra. The specific earthquake that caused the tsunami was the third most powerful in the world since 1900.
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The origenal song recording
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