Final Hazard Report Thailand is a Southeast Asian country surrounded by bodies of water. The two natural hazards that often occur are tsunamis and floods. Tsunamis are waves caused by movement of the ocean due to earthquakes and landslides on the sea floor. Tsunamis in Thailand occur because the Pacific Rim bordering the Ocean has a large number of active submarine earthquake zones. The impact of disaster variability and extreme natural hazard results in not only loss of human lives, but also damage to infrastructure, disruption of livelihoods and loss of economic activities. The 2004 tsunami in Thailand was the worst natural disaster Thailand has ever experienced. On December 26, 2004 a tsunami occurred in the Indian Ocean. This can be labeled as a priority because of the amount of lives lost during this natural hazards. An estimated 230,000 people were killed making it the sixth deadliest natural disaster in history. It was the result of the Indio-Australian Plate subducting...