[LINK] Thailand sets up buoy to detect tsunamis

[Adam Todd]

At 05:11 PM 4/12/2006, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200612/s1803805.htm
>
>Thai authorities have installed a tsunami detection buoy in the Indian 
>Ocean off the coast of Phuket.
>
>It is designed to prevent a repeat of the devastating death toll of the 
>Boxing Day tsunami two years ago.
>
>The buoy has been put in place almost 1,000 kilometres out to sea from the 
>tourist island of Phuket, which sustained a lot of damage in 2004.

How long does it take a Tsunami to travel 1,000 kms?

What if the next quake is between the bouy and the land?

Wasn't the last one only 600 km's away?