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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 in one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.
Monica Connelly was vacationing on a beach in Thailand with her parents on Dec. 26, 2004, when the Indian Ocean Tsunami, also known as the Boxing Day Tsunami, struck the shore.
María Belón. 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 vacation 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.
9.1–9.3. Depth. 30. Epicenter. Indian Ocean, off the coast of Sumatra. Casualties. 31,229 confirmed dead, 4,093 missing, 21,411 injured. Sri Lanka was one of the countries struck by the tsunami resulting from the Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26, 2004. On January 3, 2005, Sri Lankan authorities reported 30,000+ confirmed deaths.
The Boxing Day tsunami that hit Thailand that day—and the uneven recovery that divided the "haves and have-nots"—is seared in her memory. "We started hearing warnings all over the news and radio.
She was able to back-project the data to map the 1200-km-long rupture that was associated with the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami that devastated Sumatra. [7] [8] She and her colleagues, who included seismologist John Vidale, found that the event lasted 480 seconds and was characterized by a steady rupture velocity of 2.5 kilometers per ...
9780345804310. Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami is a memoir by the Sri Lankan educator Sonali Deraniyagala about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It was first published in 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. [ 3 ] The book recounts the story of Deraniyagala's life before the tsunami struck the coast, and how it changed ...
On December 26, 2004, an undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean caused a devastating tsunami that. Ten years after their daughter was swept away by a tsunami and written off as dead, an ...