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PHUKET: The Thai Meteorologicial Department has reported a 5.3-magnitude earthquake striking off the coast of northern Sumatra at 4:46pm.

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The earthquake struck at a depth of only two kilometers.

The Gazette has received a report from Patong Beach that some people have left the beach area as a precaution.

The Gazette has received no reports of any of the tsunami warning towers sounding the alarm.
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Phuket blev ramt at to jordskælv, det må være ham vor herre på første sal der er træt af alt det skidt der sker på øen

PHUKET NEWS
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Phuket time: 7:41 AM

Phuket struck twice by earthquakes
PHUKET: Phuket was struck by a 4.3-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter believed to be in the center of the island just minutes before another quake struck off Sumatra this afternoon. San Jantharawong, chief of the Phuket office of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM-Phuket) said his officers were...

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Dane dies of blood loss after Phuket tsunami evacuation'

PHUKET: A Danish tourist injured during the evacuation of Patong Beach last Wednesday was found dead of apparent blood loss in his Patong hotel room yesterday afternoon.

Patong Police were notified of the death at 5pm by 40-year-old motorbike taxi driver Lamai Ouan – on.

Arriving at the scene with Phuket Kusoldharm Foundation workers, police found the body of the 46-year-old Dane lying on the floor beside the bed in his second – storey room of a resort hotel on 50 Pi Road in Patong.

Police estimated the time of death at five days previous to the body’s discovery by resort-worker Sommit Suka, 38.

Ms Sommit said the Danish man returned to the hotel bleeding heavily from a head wound last Wednesday afternoon after he crashed his motorbike on Phra Barami Road during the tsunami evacuation of Patong.

She told the Phuket Gazette that she advised the man to go to Patong Hospital for medical treatment, but he was drunk at the time and refused. Instead, he went into his room and shut the door.

When she opened the door to check on him as a second unofficial evacuation was underway following yesterday’s tremors, she found the man’s body on the floor next to the bed.

There were no signs of foul play in the room and none of the man’s valuables were missing, police said.

The name of the deceased is known to the Gazette, but is being withheld pending notification of kin.
http://www.phuket...12823.html

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thai skrev:

http://www.phuket...12823.html

selv forskyldt((10((, hvornår lærer de det de fulde danskere ((1((

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Ja, og højst sandsynligt uden nogen former for forsikring, siden han nægtede at modtage hjælp.-Dygtig mand.

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Quake aftershocks rattle Phuket



Phuket was shaken by more than 50 small tremors on Thursday in the wake of the 4.3 magnitude earthquake that rattled the resort island on Tuesday, the Seismological Bureau reported.

Twelve of the tremors, before 11.30am today, were measured more than 2.0 on the Richter scale, very small.

People reported feeling the aftershocks in Phuket's Thalang district.

About 40 other tremors were recorded of less than 2.0 magnitude, the bureau reported.

The Mineral Resources Department's Active Fault Research Division yesterday warned that Phuket will be shaken by a series of mild tremors for about another month.

The department believed that the two major earthquakes measured at 8.6 and 8.2 near Indonesia's Sumatra island on April 11 might have sparked the movement of the Klong Marui fault line, leading to the Phuket tremors.
http://www.bangko...hit-phuket

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