Sunday, April 8, 2007

Thailand tests tsunami warning system

Tests on a comprehensive tsunami warning system, focusing on the signal receiving towers in six southern provinces along Thailand's Andaman coast began Saturday, more than two years after the region was devastated by a twin tsunami with giant waves smashed Indian Ocean coastlines and killed 8,000 people in Thailand. The first test took place on Thailand's Phuket resort island it test was a totally success.

More tests of a tsunami warning loudspeaker in Phuket, 680 km south of Bangkok, will be conducted for several days, said Arun Kerdsom, chief of Phuket's disaster prevention and mitigation agency.

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