Boxing Day 2004 tsunami in Indian Ocean remembered 20 years on | BBC News
On 26 December 2004, Boxing Day, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of northwest Sumatra under the Indian Ocean, unleashing a devastating tsunami.
It killed an estimated 228,000 people across more than a dozen countries and caused massive damage in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives and Thailand.
The Andaman and Nicobar islands, located just about 100km north of the epicentre, suffered extensive damage when a wall of water, as high as 15 metres (49 ft) in places, hit land just about 15 minutes later.
Countries across the Indian Ocean have been remembering the catastrophic event 20 years on.
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The old weather weapons being used on the population…………..……………..again!
We see your silence on the Genocide YOU are funding and even worse, ignoring, BBC. Genocide supporters!!!!
There’s a film about it called The Impossible, starring Tom Holland before he became famous.
I was on Havelock on the Andamans , actually sleeping in a hammock when the earthquake hit , we were lucky as there is a hill on the island so we managed to get up there as the wave hit us, we was airlifted out after a couple of days. It was brutal and I can’t watch any docs about it as it brings back too many memories. I must go back and catch up with some of the amazing people that live there
🙏🙏🙏 John 14:6 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for remembering the disaster 🙏🏾
I still remembered I was 20 years old early morning in Pakistan 🇵🇰 I woke up was still in my bed in blanket turned on fm and bbc radio urdu service news " severe earthquake in Indian ocean " initially didn't understood then day pass it was all over the world then the word " tsunami " I heard first time in life and the visuals from those parts of world horrible terrifying devastating 20 years gone
In the years following the Tsunami, people were still severely affected by the losses of loved ones, many understandably feared the sea. I always felt they didn’t receive the much needed support especially psychological following the event. In Sri Lanka for many years and even today – there’s evidence of buildings and peoples homes that are no more and were not rebuilt, understandably. Luckily, non of my family perished but people I’ve met over the years have talked of their losses and how they and their families were affected. Some of the news footage at the time is permanently etched on my memory.
There wasn't a tsunami in England, dont be silly.
i usually dont watch news like this, being gen z, i grew up and still exist in an environment where news is consumed usually on the internet, away from traditional, biased or skewed news sources. but no matter what perspective we look at it, what bias we each hold, its hard to understate the tragedy which occurred 20 years ago. i may not have experienced it, let alone born back then or prior, but just like 9/11, never forget.
Took me so much time to fully understand the true scale of this. So many lost in such a short time
20 years. I remember waking up in the middle of the night with the news and watching in shock. Sending love from Canada 🇨🇦❤🙏
So emotional for remembering their pain. May their souls rest in peace
sad reality is, its gonna happen again one day
R.I.P.
Thanks, God, I was on vacation in Altai Mountains during that Christmas…
What They're Doing To David Icke is In*ane!
– у сјеверној кореји је лоше и тамо је диктатура
– шта је код вас
код вас је срање у бојама и није ништа до глупост
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– морам написати у сјверну кореју да се жали у уједињеним народима да немате људских права
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– а да није а да није путин диктатор код њих тамо је лоше
– можда у кини
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а што је код вас тада
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– у демократском друшву се мора када мора чути свака ријеч и сваки глас
– да би се могла водити која здрава паралементарна дискусија
//треба нам
– ма не мени
– ја да имам гдје ићи
– ја би вам свима рекао да вам јебем маму и сав ваш запад
– вама треба
– свако мишљење јер да би селектирали оно најбоље
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– сви скупа живите у ма којој држави
– сви имате право на ту државу као и ма ко други у њој
– тако да сви имате право рећи што је то најбоље а не само један или група
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– у демократском друштву немаш право написати закон
– да ма ко, нема право ма што рећи
– е то нема поново су избрисали
– али код вас у држави је критично стање
– да би управо сад исти трен морало се увести "принудна управа"
– сутра је касно
– прекосутра још касније и тд итд итд
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цензура
– хрвати зезнули ствар а ја никада нисам хтео имати блог ако је у контроли запада
– ви не смијете нити на који начин имати приступ томе само "реад"
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– не смијете ви контролирати ништа имате право само и само читати
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и ја то знам да је тако
– јер ја знам ко сте ви овуда и како вам сви системи раде и зашто
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лудаци на фешти до бабилона а онда неће никада више
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лудаци ако би пуните свој дио о 666
– неће ли и бог свој дио против вас
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ја вам то кажем сад и док може а послије некада неће моћи
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– да видимо бог је "погодио што ћете радити" и ви пуните тај дио
– а оно остало што тамо пише неће никада
– како то може бити да бог зна што ћете ви радити и вели вам тамо обратите се
– а ви нећете
– и тада неће никада доћи они дијелови који су против вас
??????????????
– значи да сте од праве будале
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– све и све у животу може ма што
– само не може и не може хрват србин американац британац жидов француз
– то не и никада не
//ви се поносите на то а ја бога молим да то нисам
I remember when this happened. I was 14 yrs old. Then, a few years later, I remember watching a documentary on the disaster. They interviewed several people. I particularly remember a mother talking about clench to a tree while she held her newborn and four year old. She said as she began to get weak she had to make a decision to either release one of her children or they all drown. She said she slowly let her four year old go and he began crying "mommy mommy, I'm slipping!" How it haunted her and destroyed her heart to let go. That has stuck with me for decades. I've always tried to find this documentary because i do not remember if her little boy survived or not. Now I'm a mother and i couldn't imagine letting one of my children go to say the other.
Weather weapons.
Modern Pompeii.
I was deployed with the United States Army in Kuwait at the time.
Johnathon should go to gaza snd report
🇮🇩😭 2004-2024/2025
My cousin was one of the 151. I went on to live in Southeast Asia, including Thailand where Kevin was lost.
INDONESIA COYYY
bbc wants another jab from nature after twenty years
It was still Christmas in Kampala when this struck…I remember being glued to the TV all night watching the news. I'd heard of tsunamis, but had never seen them in action till that day.
Deeply condolences to all the families of the victims from that terrrible event!
Didn't realize this happened 20 years ago, time flies
Sayz.Oh my
I remember it happen 20 years ago wake up at 300 in the morning to go bathroom i heard on the news it was on my radio.
I was only 7 years old, but I remember this day vividly. I can't believe it's been so long.
Banda Aceh is the worst hit with the most dead, nearly 200k perished
One of the benefits of social media is the legit educational contents easily accessible to almost everyone. Before, they don't know the signs of tsunami.
Rip to all
Rest in peace to the victims affected in this tragic event
I can still remember him reporting from Banda Aceh .
Im a Sri Lankan and was in another country at that time and was always in front of TV with BBC as they put lot of effort to cover all the countries that effected.Hats off.
ตอนที่คลื่นซัดฉันอายุเพียงเจ็ดขวบ แต่ฉันจำได้ชัดเจนเหมือนเมื่อวาน
😂😂😂😂😂
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For Finns, this was the biggest disaster since the WW2. In Thailand and Sri Lanka, 179 Finnish citizens died.
you know what else is massive?
Yet people still believe in God.
20th anniversary of that bastardin evil wave
I was just 3months old that time😐i never knew that
I saw a similar documentary on Al Jazeera. Are BBC and Al Jazeera like brothers and sisters?
damn, the only time my hometown got into international news and it's for 20 years anniversary of a natural disaster and it only got like, what? only 1 minute coverage
absolutely pathetic
फेरि अाउदैछ माहासुनामि,बिश्वास् लाग्छ ईन्डाेनेसियन बुद्धिजीवी हाे,16/ वटा देश नास भय कराेडाै नागरिक कलेपस् भय र माफिया हरुले लाख नागरिक भने,जि शिखर अपराधी संगठन भनेर पढेनाै नयाँ बिज्ञान ईन्डाेनेसियन हाे समय छैन 2002 सालबाट नरेन्द्र माेदि अातङ्कबादि काे डन् भयाे,जहातहि लुटपात हत्या बलत्कार अपहरणजस्ता,कार्य गर्याे र ड्याम बमले नास गरेर साेनिया गान्धी तरसाउदा गुजरात प्रान्त नै नास भयाे र अमेरिकाले माेदि बटुक डन् लाई ईनाम राख्याे माेदि अन्डरग्राउन्डभयर 2014 मा ईन्ट्रि भयाे सब डस्दै मार्दै र प्रधानमन्त्री भयाे ईन्डिया काे र तहिफे बम हानेर नास गरेकाे ईन्डिया बना भनेर दियकाे नसकेर काेराेना अायाे र काेराेनामा 100 वटा माेदि 100 वटा ज्ञानेन्द्र शाह,र कयाै बने चाईनाकाे शिजिङ्पिङ् र रशियाकाे पुनिन बाहेक सब नकाप छन्,चाईना रशिया नास गर्न तम्सियका बुझ्याै माेदिकाे ज्ञानेन्द्र शाह काे भिडियाे देख्छाै याे डिजिटल अनलाइन समयहाे,पढ्न लेख्न कसैले छेक्दैनन् महेन्द्र शाह र येलिजाबेत अपराधी नि ले ४ सहिद बनाईदिय नेपाली प्रिन्सिपल हरु मारेर अझ बंगाली यी सरणार्थी नेपाली हरु ज्ञानेन्द्र अाउ देश बचाउ सज्जन हरुकाे चाक हन्न लगाउ भन्छन्
Boxing Day Tsunami 😂?!!! The tsunami and quake has nothing to do with Christians and celebrations……
See how they want to bring in their traditions to the region that has nothing to do with it 😂😂😂😂