Tsunami Records in Thailand

(1) Tsunami Records in Thailand
Seven tide gauge stations in Thailand along the coasts of the Indian Sea were working at the 2004 Sumatra Tsunami coming. Five stations of them are operated by Thai　Marine　Department　(TMD), and the others are operated by Hydrographic Department of Royal Thai Navy　(HDRTN).

(2) Time differences in the records
The above records have some time differences from the acurate time.
The times of the high and low tide in the tsunami record were compared with those of the calculated astronomical tide.
As a result, in the case of the record of Kuraburi, Phangnga, the time in the record is about 10 minutes behind accurate time.
If you use the records, please be careful.

The time differences are mentioned in Tsuji et. al. (2005) and Namegaya et. al. (2005)

Tsuji, Y., Y., Namegaya, H., Matsumoto, S., Iwasaki, W., Kanbua, M., Sriwichai, and V., Meesuk, 2004 Indian tsunami in Thailand: Tsunami height and tide gauge records, Earth Planets and Space, 2005. (submitted)

Namegaya, Y., Tsuji, Y., H., Matsumoto, W., Kanbua, M., Sriwichai, and V., Meesuk, S., Iwasaki, ield Survey of the Tsunami of the 2004 Indonesia-Sumatra Earthquakes along the coast line of Thailand excvept Phuket Island and Khao Lack areas., Proceedings of Coastal Engineering, JSCE, 52, 2005. (in Japanese, submitted)

(3) Contact
If you have any inquiries, please contact Sin-Iti Iwasaki via email.

Sin-Iti IWASAKI
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention
3-1 Tennodai Tsukuba 305-0006 Japan
cuh@bosai.go.jp