{"id":2342488,"date":"2024-12-26T12:34:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T12:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2342488\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T12:34:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T12:34:59","slug":"boxing-day-2004-tsunami-in-indian-ocean-remembered-20-years-on-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2342488\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day 2004 tsunami in Indian Ocean remembered 20 years on | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Boxing Day 2004 tsunami in Indian Ocean remembered 20 years on | BBC News\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1UZ81D67Gf8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBoxing Day 2004 tsunami in Indian Ocean remembered 20 years on | BBC News<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Countries across the Indian Ocean have been remembering the catastrophic event 20 years on.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Tsunami #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing Day 2004 tsunami in Indian Ocean remembered 20 years on | BBC News On 26 December 2004, Boxing Day, a 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2342489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[395391],"tags":[37028,3761,8747,8018,754949,67,1217,68,1225,201,6946,30355,771902,4818,67622,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-2342488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bbc","10":"tag-bbc-news","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-india-news","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-japan-breaking-news","15":"tag-japan-news","16":"tag-japan-today","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-us-news","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-usa-news","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-233"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}