tsunami

PHANGNGA, Dec 27 (TNA) – Thousands of candles illuminated the Tsunami Memorial Park in Ban Nam Khem in Phang-nga on Thursday night as families gathered to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Thailand’s deadliest natural disaster that struck six Andaman coastal provinces on December 26, 2004. The memorial site in Bang Muang subdistrict, Takua Pa, drew […]

PHANGNGA, Dec26 (TNA) – Thailand marked the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Thursday, with ceremonies held in Phang-Nga province, one of the areas hardest hit by the disaster.   At the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Site in Takua Pa district, hundreds of mourners, including Thai and foreign nationals, gathered for religious […]

PHANGNGA, Dec 26 (TNA) – Twenty years after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, survivors in Thailand’s worst-hit Baan Nam Khem village still vividly remember the disaster while expressing confidence in the government’s current warning systems. The tsunami, triggered by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake off the northwest coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on December 26, 2004, […]

Thailand’s Andaman coastal provinces have commemorated the 19th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami which killed thousands in Thailand alone.

There were religious ceremonies in several southern provinces to mark the 18th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami.