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On Boxing Day 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck beneath the Indian Ocean, just 240 kilometres off the coast of Sumatra, …
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Human beings are so selfish. Lost two kids. MUST have another. Raise $$$. Have another kid. This is what is wrong with the people on this planet. Humans.
No matter how many videos I watch on that horrible day, I still cry. I can't believe it was 20 years ago..
So good to hear the train story. Puts it in perspective.
The thai people are the best natured and genuinely most welcoming people ive ever met.
The one country that i didnt feel prices of things werent artificially higher in price because we were tourists, i would go back there in a breath. I met people who were caught up in the events of 20 years ago, they said even though the locals had lost pretty much everything they still went way out of their way to help foriegn folks involved in this singular horror.
Nature is for the need of people, not for the greed of people. Well said, sir.
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I felt the earthquake in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, all the way across Peninsular from Penang and Banda Aceh, on the other coast. You can see the smallest hump on the right here 2:10 – that was where I was. We were visiting my bro over Christmas, he was doing National Service. Confused as Malaysia never has earthquakes, we were evacuated from the high rise hotel, nothing happened, we were allowed back in about an hour later, checked out, drove back to the capital after dropping my bro back at camp. After 3pm, he called us, we were over an hour from the capital still, and told us about reports of big waves hitting Penang. Only on the 8pm news did we know about all the other places the tsunami hit – Thailand, Sri Lanka, parts of India-at that point, Banda Aceh, which was very close to us geographically, was still out of contact so we had no news. Took about 3 days for the scale of the devastation there to be reported. It was unbelievable. I remember feeling very sad for the people who were affected, through no fault of their own, believe I donated as much of my savings as I could but still wanted to do more. I remember we did not eat fish and seafood for almost a year, feeling it would be disrespectful to the thousands of still missing victims to inadvertently consume parts of their bodies if they had been eaten by the creatures of the sea. I still think about all the victims every Boxing Day and light a candle for them, hope they have moved on to the afterlife and not be stuck wandering the earth because of their tragic deaths.
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#RespectTheMangroveforests Only they saved lives.
Thanks for this sensitive documentary. Prayers
Very good documentary. The amount of deaths in this one horrific disaster over several countries is surreal…hope we are better prepared for any upcoming devastating tsunamis like this one.
Its really heart melting to hear what people experienced on that day of 26thDec2004 and after that
Thank you, great documentary !
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Mangrove as tsunami's weakness. Never heard of that until now.
20 years ago today. I was living in Hawaii at the time. I remember it. SAD.
Really well done. Thank you. I was in Phuket and stayed on for 3 months helping out afterwards.
Sharia Law and peace? Really?
I had always hoped families/survivors who lost children in the Tsunamis could have adopted orphaned children. It seems a better idea than having orphanages and lonely, widowed and bereft adults..
I will 😢😢😢😢never forget this incident
It's very traumatic…. 😭😭😭
Disasaters like this bring out the best in us humans but looking at what’s happening in the world today where has that humanity gone ?
Thank you for marking this tragic catastrophe 20 years on. I remember seeing it on the UK news, and it looked absolutely frightening. My college friend visited Thailand only a year in 2003 before the tsunami saying how beautiful it was. So many thousands of lives lost in tragic conditions. I only hope the survivors, families and friends wounds have healed. My sincere wishes to all those that suffered all these years from injury and great loss.
My wife and I had just come back from Thailand less than a month before the tsunami and we watched on from home in horror as footage of the places we had just been were hit by the wave and were then covered by mangled wreckage and numerous dead bodies. It was a terrible and surreal experience and our hearts go out to the people and families that were devastated by this event and to the Japanese people who disastrously fell victim to the later earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
Recently, Chinese people are creating an anti-American atmosphere by attending South Korean political rallies in favor of impeachment.
I hope and pray that the survivors will be able to maintain mental strength to live on and gradually putting away the trauma and horrors of the tsunami disaster.
On another note, I would like to see ABC News make a second part of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami disaster, but focusing on the interviewing people who videotaped the disaster as it happened, with detailed infos such as the vantage points of where they recorded the quake and tsunami and having experts on tsunami research explaining the physics of tsunami wave as it struck further inland into cities, towns, villages, islands or continental areas.
Good documentary. Will never forget that day
First time I hear about the protection against tsunami by the mangrove forest.
I was there it was like hell😢
The devastation and loss of life was unimaginable. I had been in the same Phuket beach a week before the Tsunami. It never felt the same after that. Wishing all those affected the will to move on. ❤
what a beautiful yet tragic anniversary special. thank you
You can't stop it.