Phuket in Thailand was hit with a tsunami in 2004 and this unexpected catastrophe caused 1000s of deaths. Nobody was prepared for such catastrophe, therefore how many victims and destructions was huge.
Once the tsunami struck Phuket in Thailand, most 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. The office was down plenty of steps, and basically underground and under sea level. Fortunatly it absolutely was boxing day and every expat had a day off, but if they could have been working that day I much more lifes would 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 was simply some of those expat who had a lucky excape. The song was recorded on a 4-track in his bedroom in the UK. The song is all about their own personal experience of what happened when he was residing in Patong when the Tsunami hit on Boxing day, 2004.
This year (2024) could be the 20th annerversay of the Tsunami.
The Charity
The ‘Coconut Club ', which can be run by the ‘Phuket Has Been Good To Us Foundation ', offers a course of on-going leisure and education development activities, offering 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, before the Coconut Club was established, had the ability to leave the school grounds or engage in any activity beyond your 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 secure and comfortable developmental environment, which raises their self-esteem and confidence, permitting them to use and apply what they're learning inside their English class to their everyday life.
Donations will also be used to cover the sporadic trips to local music concerts and events, to get books, accessories and for educational items for the music and arts classes. There's also a wish listing of items that they urgently need so dependent on donations we want to fund these products also if we can.
The ‘Phuket Has Been Good To Us'Foundation welcomes donations of any size. If you wish to donate please go to the Tsunami Day song for Phuket page and contact them directly from there. We also offer links to 'Phuket Sunshine Village Foundation', that is another charity assisting children left without parents after the tsunami.
More about 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) over the west coast of Phuket island
3 metres (9.8 ft) along the south coast of Phuket island
2 metres (6 ft 7 in) across 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 around the Indian Ocean was an undersea earthquake with a degree 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 actual earthquake that caused the tsunami was the 3rd most powerful on the planet since 1900.
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The origenal song recording
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