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A massive tsunami with waves up to 30 m (100 ft) high, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami after the Boxing Day holiday, or as the Asian Tsunami, [10] devastated communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries, violently in Aceh , and severely in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu , and Khao Lak ...
Map showing the provinces of Thailand affected. Thailand was one of the 14 countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004. It left behind unprecedented damage and destruction in six provinces of Thailand, impacting 407 villages, completely destroying 47 of them, including prominent tourist resorts like Khao Lak.
Tilly Smith (born 1994) is a British woman who, as a child, was credited with saving the lives of approximately 100 beachgoers at Mai Khao Beach in Thailand by warning them minutes before the arrival of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
A Whatcom County resident survived the deadliest tsunami in recorded history when she was just 13 years old. ... Monica Connelly was vacationing on a beach in Thailand with her parents on Dec. 26 ...
The massive Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami was triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra island. Indonesia's Aceh province, which was closest to the earthquake, was hit first and hardest. More ...
It's a day 76-year-old Hin Temna won't forget. He lost seven members of his family in the disaster and his eldest daughter remains missing. She and more than 1,500 people in the village were swept ...
Operation Unified Assistance was the American military's humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. On 28 December 2004, elements of the Combined Support Force were deployed to U-Tapao International Airport in Thailand. More than 12,600 Department of Defense personnel were involved in the relief effort.
It was one of Thailand's worst-affected areas in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed around a quarter of its population of 4,200 and destroyed 80 percent of its homes. [ 1 ] Ban Nam Khem was originally a small fishing community of around 30 households, until tin mining concessions granted in the area around 1972–1973 led to an ...