Phuket Thailand Breathes Easy After Tsunami Scare

Released on: September 14, 2007, 12:09 am

Press Release Author: Hotel2Phuket

Industry: Government

Press Release Summary: Phuket Thailand: next the high royal of tsunami alert last
night, after a foremost tremble off the coast of Sumatra followed by numerous mighty
aftershocks it\'s problem as typical for the Phuket tourism activity, alalthough the
excitement.

Press Release Body: Phuket Thailand Breathes Easy After Tsunami Scare

Phuket Thailand: 9/14/2007

Phuket Thailand: next the high royal of tsunami alert last night, after a foremost
tremble off the coast of Sumatra followed by numerous mighty aftershocks it\'s
problem as typical for the Phuket tourism activity, alalthough the excitement.

Indonesian government authorities gushd a tsunami alarm after a mighty earthtremble
measuring 7.9 on the Richter level jolted parts of Indonesia\'s Java and Sumatra
islands at 6:10 pm.

The United States Geological appraisal crux (USGS) telled that the tremble occurred
130 kilometers (80 miles) southwest of Bengkulu, Sumatra, which is 695km (435 miles)
south-southwest of Singapore. The epicrux was recorded at a gravity of about 30km.

The USGS also telled a moment 7.1 tremble in the Kepulauan Mentawari county of
Indonesia at 10:35 this morning. That tremble, at a gravity of 10km, was recorded by
the state adversity alarm heart (NDWC) in Nonthaburi, which has yet to gush any
alerts but remnants in a royal of high skill.

After a native television advertise bust the rumor to the Thai free about 7:30 pm
last night, shore bars and shops in Patong promptly blocked as throngs of people
headed serenely for upper ground. passage jams were telled along Phra Barami Rd, the
path which traverses Patong rise.

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The USGS also telled a moment 7.1 tremble in the Kepulauan Mentawari county of
Indonesia at 10:35 this morning. That tremble, at a gravity of 10km, was recorded by
the state adversity alarm heart (NDWC) in Nonthaburi, which has yet to gush any
alerts but remnants in a royal of high skill.

After a native television advertise bust the rumor to the Thai free about 7:30 pm
last night, shore bars and shops in Patong promptly blocked as throngs of people
headed serenely for upper ground. passage jams were telled along Phra Barami Rd, the
path which traverses Patong rise.

faster to the seashore, Kathu passage watch switched passage pour along the path
from two-way to one-way, caption away from the seashore. Access to the seashore path
was temporarily restricted last night to facilitate the people demanding to vacation
the part alalthough the require of any executive alarm advising them to do so.

On Sainamyen Rd in Patong, people walking to shelter zones congregated unlikely
7-Elevens and Family sale supplies, which were liability a efficient trade in
alcohol sales as cars and motorbikes leisurely stirred away from the seashore.

Conversations alert on the devastation rootd by the tsunami that struck the Andaman
seashore on December 26, 2004. Of the people the Gazette beam to, many of the even
visitors to Phuket were not overly anxious.

Last night\'s earthtremble was firstly telled as 8.2 in moment, compared with the 9.0
earthtremble in 2004. Another large tremble off Sumatra registering 8.7 on the
Richter level on the night of protest 28, 2005 also futile to deliver a tsunami.

next rumor of the early tremble, pinnacle Minister Surayud Chulanont organized the
state adversity alarm heart (NDWC) to overseer the condition directly. From Phuket
Provincial lobby, Phuket junior-regulator Worapoj Ratthasima urged all executives
and residents to reside tuned and support for a tsunami as a precaution, as did
committee of other Andaman coast provinces.

NDWC executive Dr Smith Dharmasaroja said that he said the earthtrembles posed no
jeopardy to the six Andaman provinces, so there was no poverty to activate the
alarm-tower sirens or alarm letters.

However, the statement that the alarm towers had not sounded any type of alarm was
root for disturb for some.

As the hours approved, people happening recurring to the foremost nightlife parts of
the retype civic. Many problemes reforemosted blocked for the night, however, and
the seashorefront path was still stillness at 10:30 pm.

Aroon Kerdsom, who heads the provincial side of the Department of adversity
Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM-Phuket), said his workers were last night organized
to tell to the island\'s 19 tsunami alarm towers with tragedy vehicles and apparatus,
although he stressed that the move was precisely precautionary.

The DDPM-Phuket did not leave people from small distant islands as had happened in
parts of Krabi and Phang Nga and his workers were told to notify the free not to
panic, he said.

However, many people in low-false coastal parts did just that, sentence televised
tells of the tremble enough to warrant evacuation.

About 9 pm, some 80 people leaved the Laem Tukkae part for the shelter of Phuket
Provincial lobby, while some coastal residents of Rawai stirred up off the seashore
to upper ground. Both locales are home to Sea Gypsy communities.

Many residents of Kamala, which was devaroyald by the 2004 tsunami, did not stay for
a alarm before fleeing in panic to the shelter of the close Nakkerd rises.

K. Aroon asked the free to put belief in the notifyation free by the DDPM and not to
panic or leave parts save advised to do so.

Regional trying of the NDWC\'s tsunami early alarm routine on July 25 had bare evils
at three of the island\'s 19 alarm towers: Ao Makham, Kata Noi and Nai Harn. NDWC
workers had because effected repairs on all three towers, which in some bags was as
plain as hurtful down foliage impeding sound waves from roving unobstructed, he
said.

next this morning\'s tremble V/Gov Worapoj said tourists poverty not disquiet about a
tsunami as the government has a wholly functional alarm routine in place and is
organized to gush a opportune evacuation alarm should it be required.

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