Phuket was hit by a tsunami in 2004 and this unexpected catastrophe caused tens and thousands of deaths. Nobody was prepared for such catastrophe, therefore how many victims and destructions was huge.

When the tsunami struck Phuket, all of the major beaches such as for instance 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, Thailand. 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 could 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 another 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 had been 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 their own personal connection with what happened when he was residing in Patong once the Tsunami hit on Boxing day, 2004.

This year (2024) could be 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 course 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, prior to the Coconut Club was established, had the ability to leave the school grounds or participate in any activity beyond your 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 gives a secure and comfortable developmental environment, which raises their self-esteem and confidence, permitting them to use and apply what they're learning in their English class to their everyday life.

Donations will also be used to cover the occasional trips to local music concerts and events, to buy books, accessories and for educational items for the music and arts classes. There's also a wish list of items they urgently need so influenced by donations we intend to fund these products also when we can.

The ‘Phuket Has Been Good To Us'Foundation welcomes donations of any size. In the event that you would like to donate please go to our 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 following 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) across the south coast of Phuket island
2 metres (6 ft 7 in) over 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 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 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 specific earthquake that caused the tsunami was the next strongest in the world since 1900.

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The origenal song recording

 

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