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Originally Posted by dawsey
amoeba
This is just scaremongering.
There are earthquakes there almost every day and would have to be considerably greater to cause a tsunami warning in Phuket.
The one on 26/12 was somewhere in the 8.6 region and a 7.2 is nowhere near as big.
It is no help to publish these warnings and thereby scaring away potential visitors to LOS.
Phuket now has in place, an adequate warning system,and I would wait until a current forum member posts with latest news before putting out a scare like you have just done.
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I think scaremongering is when someone just comes on to the forum and starts posting warning messages just for the hell of it. I do think that if substantiated, these warnings/newsflashes should be posted as everyone has a right to know what is going on.
I know we don't want it to happen and perhaps that is why some people are a little bit defensive and react negatively to this type of message, then again maybe I'm wrong. However, I do feel that we should not get complacent and let ourselves get caught out by this. Nobody really wants to travel to somewhere that is not safe and potentially life threatening. I know this might sound like I am being a little bit insensitive, but I am being realistic. I do worry about the people who actually live there including BM's, my GF and lots of Thai friends that I have made. I wish I could stop it happening, but if it gets to the stage where being there is dangerous, I would like to know beforehand and not once it happens. This is just human nature, self-preservation if you like.
Fingers crossed nothing like last December ever happens again.
Diz