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Dedicated to all 2004 December 26th Boxing Day Tsunami Victims, families,those injured, and those otherwise affected.
The terrible devastation and the aftermath of this catastrophe caught on tape. The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami was triggered by an earthquake off the north-west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It killed 230,000 people in a dozen Indian Ocean countries, 170,000 of them in Indonesia's Aceh province alone.
Sri Lanka and Thailand were severely impacted by the tsunami on December 26, 2004. Tsunami Thailand 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time) December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
Surprisingly, some islands right in the middle of the tsunami were not badly affected. It turns out their atolls, or coral reefs, absorbed much of the wave. The coral ridges protected them. In many regions of the Asian waters, there is a practice some fishermen use, of dynamiting the natural coral reefs to bring up fish. These barriers to the tsunami were no longer in place to deflect the water.
The disaster promoted a global outpouring of sympathy, with governments, individuals and corporations pledging more than $13 billion in aid. According to UN database, nearly two years after donors pledged billions to help the victims only half the money had been spent. Of the half a million people left homeless by the disaster, only a third have been permanently rehoused.
The public response to the tsunami was very untypical. A combination of events - the dramatic nature of the huge wave, its occurrence at Christmas, the size of the disaster, the fact that so many Westerners died, the availability of spectacular video footage and the extensive TV coverage that secured - meant that the global public gave far more than ever before. The money went to aid agencies that were too small to mastermind such a mammoth task. Oxfam has spent more than $280 million on disaster recovery work and is now more than three-quarters of the way through its response plan. Aid workers have helped more than 2.3 million people across seven countries to get back into their homes.Despite the outpouring of generosity from aid agencies and individuals, recipient countries say pledges by some governments have still not been honoured.
The earthquake triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing more than 230,000 people in eleven countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters With a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3, it is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph. This earthquake had the longest duration of faulting ever observed, between 8.3 and 10 minutes. It caused the entire planet to vibrate as much as 1 cm (0.5 inches) and triggered other earthquakes as far away as Alaska.
The disaster is known by the scientific community as the Great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake,and is also known as the Asian Tsunami and the Boxing Day Tsunami. Thailand: 5,393 confirmed dead, 3,071 missing. Many of the missing are presumed dead. Maldives: 82 dead, 26 missing.
Sri Lanka, which was second hardest hit by the catastrophe, stood at 30,957, according to the Centre for National Operations. The number of people listed as missing was 5637. In India, the official death toll was 10,749 with 5640 still reported missing and feared dead.
The latest disaster to hit Asia, Cyclone Nargis struck May 2008, bringing winds of up 120mph and flooding to the badly affected Irrawaddy Delta region, Burma Myanmar. The cyclone had left twice as many people vulnerable as the 2004 Asian tsunami.

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hmmm.....then watch ... ( 1 week ago by elmosworldxox)

hmmm.....then watch a huge wave come crashing down on ur head.....even though it probley wont be that high but still!

Yeah, that would ... ( 1 week ago by Arnebananlolo)

Yeah, that would probably suck xD. But meh i dno, might consider the situation different if i was there ;>

scary. imagine if ... ( 1 week ago by kiuhy7)

scary. imagine if some catastrophe a hundred, or a thousand times bigger than this hits us. we'll be in trouble.

so you know that ... ( 1 week ago by L0v3Namine)

so you know that person aww im srry

There is no way ... ( 1 week ago by jack19790)

There is no way that water could do that. Its just water, not a bomb. It couldn't destroy all of that stuff. I say fake.

Array ( 1 week ago by StanHunter)

to jack 19790 tell me, why would people will lie about this stuff??

I agree! Even ... ( 1 week ago by texan7)

I agree! Even though I live in Louisiana, I still know that to vacate a building in an earthquake, or get in a door frame, or if an avalanche keep moving if it catches you to create an air pocket. That's basic education. If the tide drastically changes like that, it goes out, you see a big wave coming in. GET OUT OF THE WAY. Geez and I went to Public school...

that wasn't an ... ( 1 week ago by KaneTheBong)

that wasn't an earthquake, that was a small meteorite that hit the ocean. Trust me! The government covered it all up to prevent us (the public) from knowing we don't have the technology to stop a meteorite. check the dates... December 2004 tsunami hit. December 2004 big meteorite just missis earth. a smaller rock broke off the meteorite and hit the ocean. i have a video on my profile showing us military seeing the meteorite

i heard if you can ... ( 1 week ago by homiefromthahood)

i heard if you can see the wave come in its too late.. those things travel so fucking fast

are you serious? ( 1 week ago by xxCharmed1329xx)

are you serious?

QUE STONE INPACTANTE ( 1 week ago by chilenitamax)

QUE STONE INPACTANTE

Who gives a crap ( 6 days ago by david13395)

Who gives a crap

Array ( 6 days ago by guildwars1001)

@jack19790 jack this is absolutly not a fake this wave went too this places with 800kmh and with speed evry thing gets ripted a part

look at 6:00 to 6: ... ( 6 days ago by tiger1528)

look at 6:00 to 6:02 is that a body?

Wow never heard the ... ( 6 days ago by angelfishlover)

Wow never heard the news eh?

i jus learned in ... ( 6 days ago by SuperCDxoxo05)

i jus learned in earth science today that these people had 2 hours and 50 mins to head to higher grounds

Awesome music ( 5 days ago by SolForceJxn2)

Awesome music

where are the hugh ... ( 5 days ago by Confucious2012)

where are the hugh waves???????

i'm glad i live in ... ( 4 days ago by robijntjehvj)

i'm glad i live in the Netherlands, although the climate is rising we can go also dow under

the huge waves are ... ( 4 days ago by clownfishyi1994)

the huge waves are in sumatra (if i spelled the correctly), tiland, india, the maldives got hit the worst being one giant sand bar, and any other places in the indian ocean and threw out asia

that would have ... ( 4 days ago by Georgie2500)

that would have been kind of cool to see from high above safe from the waters..

jack19790 I cant ... ( 2 days ago by faizali14)

jack19790 I cant beleive u wud take the piss and act like a complete retard 300,000 peple lost their lives and u think its a fake,,, go crawl back under ur rock u coackroaches smelly cunt

OMG rip 6:03 ( 2 days ago by darknessdel454)

OMG rip 6:03

god, where have you ... ( 16 hours ago by GottSeinHofnarr)

god, where have you been at that time?? -.-