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The Impossible (Spanish: Lo imposible) is a 2012 English-language Spanish biographical disaster drama film directed by J. A. Bayona and written by Sergio G. Sánchez.It is based on the experience of María Belón and her family in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
María Belón (born 1966) [1] is a Spanish physician and motivational speaker, known for surviving the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami when she was on holiday in Thailand with her husband Enrique (Quique) Álvarez [2] and three sons Lucas, Simón, and Tomás. She was severely injured in the tsunami and nearly died. [3]
A Whatcom County resident survived the deadliest tsunami in recorded history when she was just 13 years old. Now, 19 years after the disaster, she’s telling her story. Monica Connelly was ...
Tsunami survivor Dendy Montgomery, 46, wasn't planning on working on Dec. 26, 2004 — then the world's worst tsunami was triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia
Smith learned about tsunamis in a geography lesson, [4] [5] two weeks before the tsunami, from her teacher Andrew Kearney at Danes Hill School. [6] [7] [8] While she and her family were walking on Mai Khao Beach, she recognised the signs of a tsunami she had been taught, and alerted her parents. "The water was really, really frothy," Smith said.
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 away by the deadly tsunami on Boxing day, 15 ...
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.
Ten years after their daughter was swept away by a tsunami and written off as dead, an Indonesian family has reunited with their young daughter. On December 26, 2004, an undersea earthquake in the ...