Phuket safe and sound after tsunami scare

Added by Thailand News on January 11, 2012.
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PHUKET: The National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC), at 3am this morning, canceled the tsunami alert (not ‘warning’) that had been put in place as a result of an undersea earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra at 12:37am.

Director Somsak Khaosuwan told the Phuket Gazette this morning, “The warning was canceled at about 3am as the predicted time for a tsunami to strike the coast at 1:30 am had passed.”

Read more: The Phuket Gazette

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