March 11, 2005
PHUKET (Manager Daily) – Japanese government has sent a seismological team to tsunami affected areas in Thailand to collect tsunami-related information. Leader of the team said with an investment of some THB100 million, an effective early warning system could be installed immediately.
Professor Kimiro Mekuorae, a seismologist and warning system expert at Tokyo University who leads the team on Friday discussed with Phuket and Pang Nga governors about the scientific, fact-finding mission, the extent of damage of last year’s tsunami disaster, as well as relief efforts.
Dr Mekuorae said the mission of his team, sponsored by Japan’s Education Ministry, was to collect scientific data on the destructive power of the killer waves that killed thousands in Thailand on December 26 last year.
The information will be used to help stipulate cooperation between Japan and Thailand on disaster prevention measures, he said.
According to Dr Mekuorae, the warning system that his team had in mind would be the same as the one used in the Pacific Ocean with its centre in Hawaii.
The necessary equipments, which would be left afloat in the water to detect waves and earthquakes, could be installed immediately.
A series of earthquakes off Indonesian Sumatra Island measured 7.0-9.0 on the Richter scale sent gigantic tidal waves to ravage tourist resorts along the Indian Ocean coastlines, killing more than 270,000 people.
The waves destroyed most of tourist resorts in Thailand’s 6 Andaman seacoast provinces, resulting more than 5,000 thousand death, and thousands missing.
PHUKET (Manager Daily) – Japanese government has sent a seismological team to tsunami affected areas in Thailand to collect tsunami-related information. Leader of the team said with an investment of some THB100 million, an effective early warning system could be installed immediately.
Professor Kimiro Mekuorae, a seismologist and warning system expert at Tokyo University who leads the team on Friday discussed with Phuket and Pang Nga governors about the scientific, fact-finding mission, the extent of damage of last year’s tsunami disaster, as well as relief efforts.
Dr Mekuorae said the mission of his team, sponsored by Japan’s Education Ministry, was to collect scientific data on the destructive power of the killer waves that killed thousands in Thailand on December 26 last year.
The information will be used to help stipulate cooperation between Japan and Thailand on disaster prevention measures, he said.
According to Dr Mekuorae, the warning system that his team had in mind would be the same as the one used in the Pacific Ocean with its centre in Hawaii.
The necessary equipments, which would be left afloat in the water to detect waves and earthquakes, could be installed immediately.
A series of earthquakes off Indonesian Sumatra Island measured 7.0-9.0 on the Richter scale sent gigantic tidal waves to ravage tourist resorts along the Indian Ocean coastlines, killing more than 270,000 people.
The waves destroyed most of tourist resorts in Thailand’s 6 Andaman seacoast provinces, resulting more than 5,000 thousand death, and thousands missing.