Forensic odontologists successfully identify tsunami victims in

A man smokes a cigarette on the beach, the day after a tsunami hit Patong Beach on Phuket Island, Thailand On December 26, 2004, a major earthquake

For the upscale Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort, disaster preparedness was the watchword even before the tragedy, with resilience seen as part

phuket bus terminal 1 The source of the Tsunami was the earthquake with a magnitude of on the Richter scale on Sunday December 26th 2004 off the west coast of Northern Sumatra at

phuket tsunami The tsunami waves were quite variable over the region, presumably due to differences in local seabed topography On Phuket Island, Patong and Kamala beaches