The quake that triggered a wave as high as Sign in Create a Rediffmail account. December 26, IST. Get Rediff News in your Inbox: email. THEN: Foreign tourists walk past devastation, carrying their luggage, as they head to the airport on December 27, along Patong beach, one of the worst hit provinces of Phuket, Thailand. NOW: An aerial view of coastal in Lampuuk prior to the ten year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
Aceh was the worst hit location, being the closest major city to the epicentre of the quake. Also unclear was what happened to thousands of undocumented workers from Myanmar who did low-wage labor in the area, coming from poor, remote areas with little way to plug into the effort to account for casualties.
According to police Col. Kittipong Thongthip, there are unclaimed bodies at the Bang Maruan tsunami victim cemetery in Phang Nga, where white gravestones are marked with numbers, not names. Kittipong, who as local police chief oversees the cemetery, said 25 bodies had been confirmed to be migrant workers from Myanmar, but could not be further identified. There are no clues as to the identities of the other Karmini reported from Jakarta, Indonesia.
Associated Press writer Busaba Sivasomboon in Bangkok contributed to this report. Sections U. Despite there being several hours between the earthquake and the impact of the tsunami, nearly all the victims were taken completely by surprise.
With no adequate warning systems in place, there was no alert issued to people to seek safety. In the aftermath of the disaster, the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System was formed to detect seismological changes and provide warnings of approaching waves. However, on the 10th anniversary of the disaster, risk experts and UN officials have warned weaknesses remain in the system , particularly regarding the communication of warnings at local level.
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