Phuket in Thailand was hit with a tsunami in 2004 and this unexpected catastrophe caused a large number of deaths. Nobody was prepared for such catastrophe, therefore how many victims and destructions was huge.

When the tsunami struck Phuket island, 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. The office was down a lot of steps, and basically underground and under sea level. Fortunatly it was boxing day and every expat had a day off, but if they would have been working that day I lot more lifes could have been lost, maybe including my own. 

Unfortunatly the December 26th boxing day event killed 8,212 people in Thailand and another 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 one particular expat who had a lucky excape. The song was recorded on a 4-track in his bedroom in the UK. The song is approximately his own personal connection with what happened when he was surviving in Patong when the Tsunami hit on Boxing day, 2004.

This year (2024) is the 20th annerversay of the Tsunami.

The Charity

The ‘Coconut Club ', which is run by the ‘Phuket Has Been Good To Us Foundation ', offers a program 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 unable to look after them. They rarely, before the Coconut Club was established, had the ability to leave the college grounds or engage in any activity away from routine of their school lives. The Coconut Club enhances not merely their English language skills, but also 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 within their English class to their everyday life.

Donations may also be used to pay for the casual trips to local music concerts and events, to buy books, accessories and for educational items for the music and arts classes. There is also a wish set of items that they urgently need so determined 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 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', which is another charity assisting children left without parents after 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) over the west coast of Phuket island
3 metres (9.8 ft) over the south coast of Phuket island
2 metres (6 ft 7 in) along 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 actual seismic event that caused the tsunamis round 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 close to the northern tip of Sumatra, north to the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, using its epicentre south-west of the northern tip of Sumatra. The particular earthquake that caused the tsunami was the 3rd most effective in the world since 1900.

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The origenal song recording

 

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