Thailand remains unprepared for another tsunami 17 years after last one – Thai experts

[webfact]

 

Public disaster experts admitted Sunday that the Thai public is generally unaware of the danger posed by a repeat of a devastating tsunami, like that which struck many countries in Southeast Asia and around the Indian ocean, including the west coast of southern Thailand 17 years ago, and that there is a lack of a credible tsunami early warning system.

 

Expressing his views on the anniversary of the Asian tsunami today, Dr. Pennueng Wanichchai, chief of the project to mitigate the dangers of earthquakes for the Ministry of Science, Research and Innovations, said that there is a possibility of another tsunami in the life time of this generation, because a huge source of energy has accumulated under the Andaman Sea and is yet to be released in the form of an earthquake and tsunami.

 

In a worst case scenario, if there is another tsunami, he said that he is not sure that people will be evacuated to safety in time, if there is no evacuation plan in place, capable of being implemented at short notice.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-remains-unprepared-for-another-tsunami-17-years-after-last-one-thai-experts/

 

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[SAFETY FIRST]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand remains unprepared for another tsunami 17 years after last one

Sadly, I'd be pretty confident in saying all these Asian counties affected 17 years ago would all be unprepared....... 

 

Unprepared for another Tsunami 

[asiasurfer]

A Tsunami is not the only thing, they are not prepared for. The human mind forgets quickly... 

[Tropicalevo]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

there is a lack of a credible tsunami early warning system.

Mind you, the budget for a credible tsunami early warning system was allocated and spent.  ????

[Gandtee]

Just now, Tropicalevo said:

Mind you, the budget for a credible tsunami early warning system was allocated and spent.  ????

Spent where, and on what I wonder.????????

[MrJ2U]

Hard to really.

 

Every Thai should learn to swim though.

 

Lots of drownings every year.

[Skeptic7]

Absolutely shocking news. NOT! 

[Deli]

Anyone surprised ? Being prepared is not on this Government's agenda. Unless it comes to buying watches, not ordering quality vaccines, unreasonable lock downs, prohibiting peaceful protests, overfilling prisons ...

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Public disaster experts admitted Sunday that the Thai public is generally unaware of the danger posed by a repeat of a devastating tsunami, like that which struck many countries in Southeast Asia and around the Indian ocean, including the west coast of southern Thailand 17 years ago, and that there is a lack of a credible tsunami early warning system.

Don't worry I'm sure the "Go-fund-me" will work again.

[Boedog]

Thailand has so many experts in so many fields, it should be called a "HUB" if they could only find people with common sense and who don't take brown envelopes and care about there citizens and country more than there own greed, God what am l saying sorry l forgot this is Thailand 

[klauskunkel]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

if there is no evacuation plan in place, capable of being implemented at short notice.

Not to worry, once a tsunami is under way, then the government will form a committee.

Edited December 27, 2021 by klauskunkel

[Pouatchee]

After having watched "The Hot Zone" it became very clear to me that after the Anthrax scare and the Ebola scare in the US that even they are not ready for a pandemic... Proof is in the pudding

[ThailandRyan]

3 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

Hard to really.

 

Every Thai should learn to swim though.

 

Lots of drownings every year.

Unfortunately you can not outswim a Tsunami.......learning to swim ain't the answer.  The Tsunami warning systems buoy's are a right mess and not fixed as needed.

[mikebell]

5 hours ago, asiasurfer said:

A Tsunami is not the only thing, they are not prepared for. The human mind forgets quickly... 

In my 16 years here, I see annual reports of floods (I live in Pattaya so almost Monthly).  Every year there are drought warnings.  Every burning season there are warnings about PM2.5.  Every DAY at least 55 die on the roads through the same causes; alcohol/speed.  Hardly a month goes by without RTP featuring in a scandal.  I would suggest your last sentence should be amended to 'The Thai mind forgets quickly.'

And the Red Bull Brat has still not been punished!

[ChipButty]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Unfortunately you can not outswim a Tsunami.......learning to swim ain't the answer.  The Tsunami warning systems buoy's are a right mess and not fixed as needed.

Didnt the batteries go flat on them there buoys?

[ThailandRyan]

5 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Didnt the batteries go flat on them there buoys?

One wonders if they were made in China Batteries or buoys for that matter....yes I went there.

Edited December 27, 2021 by ThailandRyan

[Tropposurfer]

5 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

Hard to really.

 

Every Thai should learn to swim though.

 

Lots of drownings every year.

I agree with the Thai nation needing to introduce school based learn to swim and water safety campaigns but how does knowing how to swim equip any human being in the face of  wave/s many metres high and carrying along with them bone crushing, body slashing debris.

As a highly experienced surfer of 50 years I can tell you it takes an extremely surf conscious swimmer to survive breaking waves ... this ability goes completely out the window when you are being struck and driven into all manner of hard sharp objects in the washing machine of a tsunami.

[Tropposurfer]

5 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

Hard to really.

 

Every Thai should learn to swim though.

 

Lots of drownings every year.

I agree with the Thai nation needing to introduce school based learn to swim and water safety campaigns but how does knowing how to swim equip any human being in the face of  wave/s many metres high and carrying along with them bone crushing, body slashing debris.

As a highly experienced surfer of 50 years I can tell you it takes an extremely surf conscious swimmer to survive breaking waves ... this ability goes completely out the window when you are being struck and driven into all manner of hard sharp objects in the washing machine of a tsunami.

[Tropposurfer]

Consciousness of future tsunami was a decision factor in me deciding the build location of my home in Phuket.

[MrJ2U]

8 minutes ago, Tropposurfer said:

wave/s many metres high

Tidal waves are actually surges of water.

 

Not waves like the movies.

 

Learning to swim is better than having a broken mega horn blasting run to the hills.

[CANSIAM]

There's plenty of Tsunami Towers with speakers around, not sure if they work. If the Tide disappears rapidly and fish are flopping around on the sand, climb a mountain !! 

[gejohesch]

7 hours ago, Deli said:

.... Being prepared is not on this Government's agenda....

Just not very much in the Thai culture, I think.

[gejohesch]

10 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Sadly, I'd be pretty confident in saying all these Asian counties affected 17 years ago would all be unprepared....... 

 

Unprepared for another Tsunami 

The OP quotes "there is a possibility of another tsunami in the life time of this generation, because a huge source of energy has accumulated under the Andaman Sea and is yet to be released in the form of an earthquake and tsunami."

 

To be precise, and at the risk of being pedantic, the issue is larger than the Andaman Sea. The huge 2004 tsunami was triggered along the north-western offshore of Sumatra, i.e. not in the Andaman Sea. That's part of the subduction zones along the Indian Ocean coastline of Indonesia.

Edited December 27, 2021 by gejohesch

[Lopchan]

On 12/27/2021 at 7:47 AM, Deli said:

Anyone surprised ? Being prepared is not on this Government's agenda. Unless it comes to buying watches, not ordering quality vaccines, unreasonable lock downs, prohibiting peaceful protests, overfilling prisons ...

This government wasn't in power 17 years ago was it?
What about the governments before it with massive corruption?