Phuket in Thailand was hit with a tsunami in 2004 and this unexpected catastrophe caused tens of thousands of deaths. Nobody was prepared for such catastrophe, therefore the number of victims and destructions was huge.
When the tsunami struck Phuket, Thailand, most of the major beaches such as Patong, Karon, Kata, Kamala and Bangtao were affected.
At the time many expats was supposed to be working in a beach-front Hotel in Patong on Phuket. The office was down a lot 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 lot 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 after the Tsunami the song ‘Tsunami Day'was wrote and composed in 2011 by ‘Mark Hopkins ', who was simply one particular expat who'd a lucky excape. The song was recorded on a 4-track in his bedroom in the UK. The song is approximately his own personal experience of 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 course 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 incapable of look after them. They rarely, prior to the Coconut Club was established, had the opportunity to leave the institution grounds or participate in any activity outside the routine of the school lives. The Coconut Club enhances not only their English language skills, but in addition stimulates their imagination, experimentation and independent thinking abilities. It offers a secure and comfortable developmental environment, which raises their self-esteem and confidence, letting them use and apply what they're learning in their English class with 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 is also a wish listing of items which they urgently need so dependent on donations we plan to fund these materials also if we can.
The ‘Phuket Has Been Good To Us'Foundation welcomes donations of any size. If you want 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', which is another charity assisting children left without parents after the tsunami.
More in regards to 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) along the west coast of Phuket island
3 metres (9.8 ft) across 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 specific seismic event that caused the tsunamis across the Indian Ocean was an undersea earthquake with a scale 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 near the northern tip of Sumatra, north to the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, with its epicentre south-west of the northern tip of Sumatra. The actual earthquake that caused the tsunami was the next strongest on earth since 1900.
You can also see information on: Hotel Deals Phuket - Where To Stay Phuket and Rental Property Phuket
The origenal song recording
Home: Bangtao beach Bar, Restaurant & Cafe