The three-to-four metre high wave inundated a shore on the Gulf of Thailand, causing floods of one metre deep in a village of Chumphon province, according to provincial governor Pinich Charoenpanich.
He said officials helped evacuate about a hundred people to a safe place further inland, and were expected to return home when the waters had subsided and the wind dropped. There were no casualties reported.
Memories of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 that killed an estimated 5,400 people in Thailand and more than 220,000 in the region is still fresh on people's minds.
"This high wave would be normal for fisherman out at sea but this time it happened near the shore, so it caused flooding on the land," Charoenpanich added.
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