Phuket, 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 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 island. The office was down plenty 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 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 after the Tsunami the song ‘Tsunami Day'was wrote and composed in 2011 by ‘Mark Hopkins ', who was 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 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) is 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 an application of on-going leisure and education development activities, that offer 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, ahead of the Coconut Club was established, had the chance to leave the institution grounds or participate in any activity away from routine of their school lives. The Coconut Club enhances not just 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 are learning in their English class for their everyday life.

Donations will also be used to pay for 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 set of items they urgently need so determined by donations we intend to fund these things also if we can.

The ‘Phuket Has Been Good To Us'Foundation welcomes donations of any size. In the event that you want to donate please go to our 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 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) across the west coast of Phuket island
3 metres (9.8 ft) over 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 round the Indian Ocean was an undersea earthquake with a magnitude 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, with its epicentre south-west of the northern tip of Sumatra. The actual earthquake that caused the tsunami was the 3rd most powerful in the world since 1900.

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The origenal song recording

 

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