We traveled to Khao Lak to see the lasting impact of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. The scars remain, but so does the strength of the community.

Thailand as a whole remains prepared. The country has invested heavily in earthquake monitoring systems and tsunami detection buoys to ensure authorities receive immediate alerts to any potential ...

DDPM deputy director-general Saharat Wongsakulwiwat said Thailand has installed two tsunami buoys to enhance its surveillance system and allow for timely warnings. The tsunami buoys undergo ...

KHAO LAK, Thailand — Watana Sittirachot ... further protected by seawalls. Tsunami shelters dot the shoreline, set back from the beach, while alert towers are equipped with loudspeakers and ...

In Phuket, Thailand, tourists who were mesmerized ... In the 20 years since the Indian Ocean calamity, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center started providing warning services to Indian Ocean countries.

ANDAMAN SEA, Thailand - Almost 1,000km off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves – a key link in a warning system intended to ...

Almost 1,000 kilometres off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves -- a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is ...

Only a rudimentary warning system was in place ... that it can save coastal lives," he told AFP. The 2004 tsunami killed more than 5,000 people in Thailand, according to official figures, with ...

Only a rudimentary warning system was in place ... that it can save coastal lives," he told AFP. The 2004 tsunami killed more than 5,000 people in Thailand, according to official figures, with ...