The seaquake of Dec.26 in the India Ocean moved the Thai island of Phuket ten centimetres and the Indonesian island of Sumatra more than one meter in some places, Dutch scientists announced on Thursday in Brussels.

According to Radio Netherlands, the researchers at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands made use of a long-running project for measuring the level of the sea using radar altimeters on satellites.

When the seaquake struck, a number of the satellites were above the affected area, and the researches were thus able to take precise measurements of the tidal wave which stretched over 200 kilometers.

The results will be presented at the end of April at a conference in Vienna, said the radio.

(Xinhua News Agency January 21, 2005)