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Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies
In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore the brunt of the devastating wave in the country. The tsunami claimed ...
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Wave of the Future
In Thailand, for example ... but as a benchmark, in the 2004 event tsunami waves pummeled the Sumatran coast for 12 hours following just five minutes of shaking.) Time can be the enemy of ...
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Mourners mark 20 years since deadly tsunami in Asia
Indonesia's Aceh province hardest hit by tsunami In Indonesia's ... The devastating wave claimed more than 8,000 people lives in Thailand, with many who remain missing. Some 400 bodies are still ...
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Tsunami 2004: The Day the Wave Hit
Presents a minute-by-minute account of the most destructive tsunami in modern times, told through archives and personal testimonies of survivors present in Thailand and Sri Lanka on December 26 ...
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Twenty years after the tsunami: ‘It feels like yesterday’
She was trying to save him as the wave – taller ... Switzerland when the tsunami struck. Her foster parents called her immediately after seeing the news. She flew to Thailand with CHF20,000 ...