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National tributes included a two-minute silence and memorial acts at Peraliya where over 1,000 died in the worst rail disaster, remembering more than 35,000 tsunami victims.
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Sri Lanka marks 21st anniversary of 2004 tsunami; remembers over 35,000 dead
This year's commemoration comes amid lingering grief from another natural disaster, Cyclone Ditwah, which struck Sri Lanka late last month, killing nearly 700 people and leaving hundreds missing as authorities continue to assess the damage
Phuket Marks 21st Anniversary of Boxing Day Tsunami
The Phuket Express =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Phuket The Mai Khao Subdistrict Administrative Organization (SAO) held a solemn ceremony today to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, honoring the thousands of lives lost in one of the world’s deadliest natural disasters. The remembrance event, organized by the SAO’s Division of Education, Religion, and Culture, took place at the Mai […] Phuket Marks 21st Anniversary of Boxing Day Tsu…
On the morning of 26 December, the Indian Ocean was the epicenter of which would be one of the most shocking natural disasters ever recorded. An earthquake of 9.1 magnitude shook the bottom of the sea off Sumatra Island in Indonesia, and generated a tsunami that affected more than a dozen countries. The released energy was so great that, according to Seismologist Barry Hirshorn at National Geographic, it was equivalent to thousands of atomic bom…
This Saturday afternoon, 21 years from what is still considered by the United Nations (UN) as one of the most natural disasters in history, Tsunami in Southeast Asia. It was on the morning of 26 December that, just minutes before 8 local hours ago, matured in Portugal, a landfill of magnitude 9.1 across the Indonesian island of Sumatra dropped dozens of countries in the region. According to EM-DAT, 226,408 people died. The strong earthquake caus…
Today marks 21 years since the 2004 tsunami disaster
A two-minute silence will be observed across Sri Lanka today (December 26) from 9:25 a.m. to 9:27 a.m. as a mark of respect for those who lost their lives in the tsunami disaster that struck the coastal belt of Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004. In Sri Lanka, the death toll was nearly 35,000, with around 5,000 individuals still listed as missing. Today marks 21 years since the tsunami disaster of 2004, one of the world’s deadliest and most destruct…
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