Richard de Gottal, from Worthing, said surviving the tsunami in Thailand had left him with an ... unwittingly missing the first of the two tsunamis which hit the island that morning.

We all woke up with the news of this tsunami in Thailand. Slowly things started unfolding during ... an immediate response to the needs of older people. I think that’s the first time there was a focus ...

Sadly, the 2004 tsunami showed up this lack all too well in the Indian Ocean. In Thailand, for example, seismologists knew early on how big the quake was and that it probably spawned a big tsunami.