Phucket, any news?

They are OK, thank God
Were on the M/V Mariner One

Wish everyone else in similar position good luck

Found this web site:
http://www.vachiraphuket.go.th/26122547/listall.html

-Matti

"On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:33:54 +0200 (EET), Matti Anttila <mattia@cc.hut.fi>
wrote:
"
>Found this web site:
>http://www.vachiraphuket.go.th/26122547/listall.html
>
>-Matti


thanks k Matti and the webmaster for the above url especially the ctrl F
options.

All Patien name in All Phuket Hospital
Press CTRL+F and type name
Last Update: 14.31 PM 27 December 2004


as for my here is the latest:

Killer tidal waves kill 51 in Malaysia: police

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 27 (AFP) - At least 51 people have been killed and some
218 injured in Malaysia by huge tidal waves caused by a massive earthquake
in Indonesia, police said Monday.



As of 5:00pm (0900 GMT) the total number of dead in four states stood at 51
but many more people were missing from the worst-hit area on the holiday
resort island of Penang, according to latest figures provided by the
police.

A total of 37 bodies had been found on Penang, ten from neighbouring Kedah
state, three from Perak and one in central Selangor state.


and some interesting titbits:

Bikinis and cocktails as tourists defy tsunamis in Malaysia

PENANG, Malaysia, Dec 27 (AFP) - Strolling along the beach in bikinis and
sipping cocktails beside hotel pools, Western tourists on Malaysia's resort
island of Penang were determined to get the most out of their holidays
Monday despite death and destruction wrought by tidal waves.



As thousands of distraught foreigners fled once-idyllic Asian coastal
resorts from Sri Lanka to Thailand after tidal waves spawned by an
earthquake off Indonesia killed 22,000 people, several tourists told AFP
they had no intention of leaving Penang early.

With jet skis and other tourist sea toys lying mangled on the shore, they
watched search and rescue boats plying the waters off the upscale Batu
Ferringhi beach bring ashore the bodies of a 70-year-old man and an
eight-year-old boy, taking Malaysia's death toll to at least 51.

"We are not going to leave just because of this," said Grant Brewster, a
43-year-old Briton on holiday with his wife Gennifer and their two
children.

As the couple lounged in deckchairs at their beachfront hotel, Brewster
told AFP that because of previous experience of an earthquake in Cyprus he
knew a tsunami was possible after hearing news of the massive earthquake
off neighbouring Indonesia on Sunday.

"I kept an eye out and when I saw a white line on the horizon I knew
immediately a huge wave was coming."

He grabbed his wife and children and ran into the hotel before the wave,
described by a local fisherman as "as high as coconut trees", hit the
beach.

"We were paragliding an hour before the tsunami struck, so we were very
lucky," said Gennifer. "It's been an exciting Christmas, but fortunately we
are safe."

Thirty-seven people died on Penang, once known as the "Pearl of the
Orient", none of them foreigners, according to the police.

Australian property consultant Sam Wahbe said: "We are not going to leave.
It is unlikely that it will happen again.

"My wife and I were sitting on deckchairs and enjoying the sun when the
tsunami hit. Suddenly the hotel siren went off and people were blowing
whistles.

"We could see waves appearing on the horizon. There was a lot of warning,
about 10 minutes, before the tsunami hit the beach."

British factory worker Kenneth Blunt, 52, said, "The tsunami will not drive
me out of this place."

He pointed out that all the 37 deaths on Penang were of locals. "It is
strange that they were not warned. Often after an earthquake there will be
tsunamis. Why did no one warn the people?" he asked.

It is a question 19-year-old Mohamad Saufi Mohamad Hassan will be asking
himself. He was also on Batu Ferringhi beach when the tidal wave struck
some four hours after the quake off Sumatra and was picknicking with his
mother and two sisters.

He managed to grab hold of a tree as the wave hit, but his mother and
sisters were swept away. "It happened within seconds," he said. "None of us
were in the water. We were just sitting on the rocks and getting our food
ready."

Armed forces chief General Zahidi Zainuddin, who visited the area Monday
with Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak, told AFP: "There should have been
some warning system to alert the public and fishermen."

Malaysian masseuse Ann Low, 43, was working on a Japanese tourist on the
beach when he spotted a strange line on the horizon.

"The Japanese knew what it was and told me to get out quickly," she said.
"It was like a white dragon, it was a very unusual wave."

Spokesman for several Penang hotels said no guests had checked out because
of the tsunamis.

Malaysia's death toll was far lower than that in many other countries in
the region because its west coast was protected by the Indonesian island of
Sumatra from the tsunamis which rolled thousands of kilometres (miles)
across open seas to wreak devastation on distant shores.

---------------
cheers
pluto

any photo site of the are?
"Matti Anttila" <mattia@cc.hut.fi> wrote in message
news:cqovfi$inh$1@epityr.hut.fi...
> Found this web site:
> http://www.vachiraphuket.go.th/26122547/listall.html
>
> -Matti
>

some reports are now referring to the quake at 9.0

The BBC world ...for one.

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:47:59 GMT, Daniel Kessler
<dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:

>some reports are now referring to the quake at 9.0
>
>The BBC world ...for one.

Oh it was a 9.0 - the 8.9 was a preliminary magnitude; USGS corrected
it to 9.0 yesterday,

Mike
--
http://www.corestore.org
"All I know is that I'm being sued for unfair business practices by Microsoft. Hello pot? It's kettle on line two" -
Michael Robertson

"Mike Ross" <mike@corestore.org> wrote in message
news:1104255289.cbb11ce775a13d29a98154167190c544@t eranews...
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:47:59 GMT, Daniel Kessler
> <dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:
>
>>some reports are now referring to the quake at 9.0
>>
>>The BBC world ...for one.
>
> Oh it was a 9.0 - the 8.9 was a preliminary magnitude; USGS corrected
> it to 9.0 yesterday,
>

since the richter scale is logarthmic, the diff between an 8.9 and 9.0 is
TEN times the energy.

I have a couple of photo contrasts to share from my trip there 28 days
ago:

Yahoo news, Phi Phi shops debris:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...2461114118.jpg

My vacation photo, same spot, a month ago:
http://triplethreatband.com/images/p...ov2004_atm.jpg

Yahoo News, Phi Phi beach littered:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...6khb3ud_photo2

My vacation photo a month ago (note left side houses and seawall)
http://triplethreatband.com/images/p..._27Nov2004.jpg


If you're moved to do something, the international red cross would
welcome donations I'm certain! http://www.ifrc.org/
The death toll is horrific. :-\

Best Regards
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

jim frei wrote:

> "Mike Ross" <mike@corestore.org> wrote in message
> news:1104255289.cbb11ce775a13d29a98154167190c544@t eranews...
>
>>On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:47:59 GMT, Daniel Kessler
>><dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>some reports are now referring to the quake at 9.0
>>>
>>>The BBC world ...for one.
>>
>>Oh it was a 9.0 - the 8.9 was a preliminary magnitude; USGS corrected
>>it to 9.0 yesterday,
>>
>
>
> since the richter scale is logarthmic, the diff between an 8.9 and 9.0 is
> TEN times the energy.
>
>

1.26 on a base of 10, imho.

Matthias

"Matthias Voss" <spammat.voss@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:cqscid$mm1$01$1@news.t-online.com...
> jim frei wrote:
>
>> "Mike Ross" <mike@corestore.org> wrote in message
>> news:1104255289.cbb11ce775a13d29a98154167190c544@t eranews...
>>
>>>On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:47:59 GMT, Daniel Kessler
>>><dkessler@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>some reports are now referring to the quake at 9.0
>>>>
>>>>The BBC world ...for one.
>>>
>>>Oh it was a 9.0 - the 8.9 was a preliminary magnitude; USGS corrected
>>>it to 9.0 yesterday,
>>>
>>
>>
>> since the richter scale is logarthmic, the diff between an 8.9 and 9.0 is
>> TEN times the energy.
>
> 1.26 on a base of 10, imho.
>
> Matthias

yer right...my typo...meant to say diff between 8.0 and 9.0.