Khao Lak's beaches, about 40 miles north of Phuket island, were among Thailand's worst hit by the tsunami. "Today there’s a monument to the victims, but on the beachfront it's business as usual ...
People gather on the beach at the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park in the southern Thai province of Phang Nga on December 26, 2024. – Emotional ceremonies began across Asia on December 26 to ...
On the occasion of tsunami memorial day, fishermen from coastal hamlets of Thoothukudi and Kanniyakumari districts paid homage to those who lost their lives in the 2004 tsunami. A massive undersea ...
Events were held at key locations such as Mai Khao Cemetery and Patong Beach in Phuket, the Tsunami Memorial Park in Phangnga, and Ao Nang Beach in Krabi. Participants, both local and foreign, ...
Families laid flowers and lit candles in Phuket and Phang Nga provinces ... for the memorial ceremony at the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park to mark the 20th anniversary of the disaster ...
On this 20th anniversary, a Tsunami Memorial Day will be observed today in Chennai. A memorial service was held at Thrace Puram Beach in Thoothukudi. Sangukuli Fishermen's Association Isakimuthu ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet high, killing an estimated 230,000 people. Twenty years later, people gathered ...
Their proximity to the dwellings is filled with sombre meaning — the villagers wanted the vessels to be left as they were and preserved as a memorial ... Phuket, Thailand in the days after the ...