{"id":837,"date":"2014-12-26T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/tsunami-2004-thailand-837\/"},"modified":"2014-12-26T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T17:26:00","slug":"tsunami-2004-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/en\/tsunami-2004-thailand-837\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami 2004 in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tsunami 2004 in Thailand: Exactly 10 years ago on December 26, 2004 there was a devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Thailand was also badly affected by the tidal waves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today is the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake that struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The third strongest earthquake ever recorded (also known as the <strong>Sumatra-Andaman earthquake<\/strong>) triggered a whole series of tsunamis on the coasts of numerous countries in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>A total of around 230,000 people died, around 165,000 of them in Indonesia alone.<\/p>\n<h3>Thailand: Tsunami 2004<\/h3>\n<p><strong>In Thailand, the touristic coast on the Andaman Sea was particularly affected by the tidal waves, especially the holiday centers of Khao Lak and Phuket and the island of Ko Phi Phi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>407 villages were flooded, 47 of which were completely destroyed. The death toll in Thailand is estimated at over 8,000, including about a third foreign tourists.<\/p>\n<h3>Tsunami 2004 in Thailand: Ko Phi Phi<\/h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3isAPKBvJws\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Tsunami 2004 in Thailand: Khao Lak<\/h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kgU3uB6i27k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Tsunami 2004 in Thailand: Phuket<\/h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AcoDQ9fRvAQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k3_m3lACJOo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Tsunami 2004 in Thailand: Ko Lanta<\/h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F_FJJwJEXiw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsunami 2004 in Thailand: Exactly 10 years ago on December 26, 2004 there was a devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Thailand was also badly affected by the tidal waves. Today is the 10th anniversary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,224,187],"tags":[257,262,219,258,223,196,261,260,259],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-and-sea","category-phuket-en","category-tourism","tag-andaman-sea","tag-indian-ocean","tag-island","tag-khao-lak-en","tag-ko-phi-phi","tag-phuket-en","tag-tidal-wave","tag-tsunami-en","tag-tsunami-2004-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandtravel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}