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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. The disaster killed about 5,400 people ...
227,898 dead [5][6] On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 Mw struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, [8][9] was caused by a rupture along ...
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. [1][2] Smith, who was ten years old at the time, had learned about tsunamis in her ...
On December 26, 2004, the earthquake, which struck off the northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generated a tsunami that wreaked havoc along much of the rim of the Indian Ocean. Particularly hard-hit were the countries of Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand. About 230,000 people were killed, tens of thousands more were ...
The BBC stated 19 students and three teachers had survived, with 16 of the rescued being treated in the hospital. Per the Bangkok Post, the student's ages ranged from Kindergarten 2 (pre-school ...
One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 (OG269) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand. On 16 September 2007, about 15:41 ICT, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating the flight crashed into an embankment beside runway 27 at Phuket International Airport (HKT) bursting into flames upon impact during an attempted go-around after an aborted landing, killing 90 of the 130 ...
The ages of the children on board remains unclear, but the school caters for pupils between three and 15 years old. Thailand has one of the worst road safety records in the world, with unsafe ...
3 confirmed dead, 13 injured in Thailand. Colombia: An eighteen-month-old baby was reported dead in Thailand. Croatia: A 3-year-old girl from Croatia died in Thailand. Czech Republic: Seven dead (six in Thailand, one in Sri Lanka); five injured in Thailand. Denmark: 45 people dead and 1 listed as missing (as of July 18, 2005). Of the dead, 43 ...