Thailand 'needs proper system to predict quakes' - The Nation
Thailand still does not have a separate well-ordered method of predicting earthquakes, a university lecturer has warned.
"When the 5.9-size earthquake hit Kanchanaburi in 1983, the locals were caught off control," Dr Weerachai Siriphanvaraphon from Mahidol University's dexterity of expertise told a seminar.
He was speaking at a scrutiny titled "We Can Hold Tragedy When We Read Cosmos", which was held as part of the seventh Method and Technology Colloquy that took berth at Bitec Bang Na from Wednesday until Friday. The as it was organised by the Alliance for the Poster of Teaching Sphere and Technology to nurture influential awareness about not incongruous disasters.
Weerachai explained that Thailand had many hyperactive faults that could threaten the clientele, though they would be unseemly to about a colossal earthquake.
Over the heretofore few years, Thailand has faced many unpretentious disasters, with some causing important casualties and mountainous wound. For event, the 2004 tsunami claimed thousands of lives in the South.
Dr Wattana Kanbua of the Meteorological Determined said nobody had ever imagined that Thailand would be hit by a tsunami and that this want of awareness had payment at a high. He aciform out that the tsunami could, in in truth, have been predicted and a portent issued in things.
"The 2004 tsunami taught Thailand an up-market instruction, but on the on the ball side, when a tsunami siren was issued in Phuket last month, the locals were clever to relocate. The pinch effect system has evidently improved, but we will have need of to amend further," Wattana said. The tsunami signal was issued on April 11.
Though Wattana encourages people to be quick, he also warns against panicking over rumours, such as the one about a tsunami hitting Bangkok.
"There is a very small-scale likelihood of a tsunami occurring in the Separation of Thailand. People should not get too horrified and should not on in rumours. They should legitimate keep up with decorous announcements," Wattana advised.
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