Up to 80 percent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance


A Thai worker installs speakers on a warning system tower at a beach in Phuket, south of Bangkok November 27, 2005. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Up to 80 percent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance work, the deputy director-general of its disaster prevention department said on Monday, more than a decade after the region was hit by a tsunami that killed 226,000 people.

A 9.15 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia on Dec. 26, 2004 and triggered a massive tsunami that caused large scaled destruction and loss of life throughout the Indian Ocean.

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