When was the most devastating and deadliest tsunami?

Correct answer: December 26, 2004

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What people think about it: 40 Comments
Rachel
Rachel
One of my cousins children was in Thailand at the time. They were supposed to go surfing that morning but overslept from being out at a party beforehand. They were on the 2nd floor of the holiday apartment and never heard anything, woke up to people yelling and walked out on the balcony to see the devastation. The bottom floor was full of water almost reaching their level. They were actually supposed to have the bottom apartment but due to an error ended up on top floor. Saved their lives!
Player #65746695
Player #65746695
the film "the impossible" documents this. excellent movie
Jonesy
Jonesy
Player #28422752, it will happen again. It is just a matter of when.
Rahimah_91
Rahimah_91
Rachel, wow.. This proof that we should not being too upset when we don't have everything we wanted. There is always reason for everything. God's plan is the best plan.
khafe
khafe
Rachel, wow!!! what a blessing in disguise
Player #84132418
Player #84132418
our family reached relatives home just an hour before the tsunami
lizouche
lizouche
Rachel, your family is really lucky, twice!! God bless you all
Jill
Jill
We had just returned home from Phuket when this happened. Besides the huge loss of life, Our hotel and beach, restaurants, shopping areas and a large part of the island were destroyed.
Joseph sigaya
Joseph sigaya
Player #65746695, yes indeed it's really very heartbreaking story
Col  Joye
Col Joye
Rachel, wow..... God was in control!!
JayJay
JayJay
The film (I think "The Impossible") depicting this devastation was mind blowing and heartbreaking 😭 RIP 🙏
Cat
Cat
Jonesy, please try to remember that God promised never to flood the earth again. Start in Genesis the end of chapter 6- 3:22 and Genesis 7-all the way to the end. And Genesis chapter 9 is a great example of Gods grace and mercy 🙏❤️🙏
Mel
Mel
IVE SEEN PHOTOS OF THE DESTRUCTION IN PHUKET.THOSE POOR PEOPLE DIDNT WHAT HIT THEM. I HOPE THE US HELPED.
knowledge hunger
knowledge hunger
Devastating how Mother Nature Can Be
Donna
Donna
Major Naive Cube, Boxing Day is December 26th. Called that because servants were given the day off and opened their gifts (boxes).
jc
jc
Player #65746695, watched that movie 5 times and can watch again.
Sandy
Sandy
Of course it will happen again as is true for all natural disasters. They’ve been happening since the beginning of time because our planet is a living, evolving organism. It’s not due to anything we’re doing wrong, it’s just that we’ve made our homes in the natural path. That’s the part we might want to change.
Raphus
Raphus
Was it really an earthquake, or another meteor that was missed, as a few have been over the past 20 years..
Jbles
Jbles
you could argue that the one off the coast of Japan was at least as devastating due to the fact it knocked out the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant causing an incident comparable to Chernobyl, including irradiated water pouring into the ocean...
Mel
Mel
Player #28422752, I was in total shock when I was watching the news do an jaw dropping live report of that event. I sat in horror.
Jairo
Jairo
it is astonishing the power of nature, it has the power to destroy all the human beings most that any weapon that the human could develop, nevertheless we continue causing damage in it.
Player Say what!?
Player Say what!?
NimuaeAvalon, I'm not a Christian, but the best response I can come up with for your great messages is, HALLELUJAH!
Player Say what!?
Player Say what!?
Rahimah_91, your response begs the question: Was it God's plan for those killed?
Trudy
Trudy
Player #65746695, streaming somewhere??
Trudy
Trudy
Rachel, 😳 scary
Player #111376550
Player #111376550
Rachel, Praise God for protecting them.
Kathey
Kathey
Player #28422752, it will. that is nature.
Vinzy
Vinzy
Rachel, 😳
Maestra
Maestra
Easy to guess - more recent events have tended towards more catastrophic.
Tiff
Tiff
Rachel, the hotel Triton I honeymooned at in Sri Lanka 4 years earlier was totally swept away. Apparently sadly, lots of staff and guests were among the casualties
Player #98632086
Player #98632086
Player #65746695, great mivie
Vegalla
Vegalla
One of the most devastating calamities in our country, Indonesia. We have never fully mentally recovered from it, and till now always afraid of tsunami every time an earthquake happens. And in our volcanic country, believe me, earthquake is a common thing to happen.
Jenny
Jenny
Col Joye - not sure that "God" was in control there! Are you saying there's a being in the sky who chose to save some people and chose to let thousands of others perish horribly? That's a strange kind of a god you've got there!
Calin
Calin
Andie Stanley, It was in the coast of Yucatán peninsula, Mexico ♥️ saludos
rozz9791
rozz9791
are you serious.... what there wasn't one before?
SweetLou
SweetLou
Rahimah_91, I think the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives might not think it was a great plan
Taiwan
Taiwan
Player #28422752, Nobody can control Mother's Nature, except aliens 😅
Daniel K. A.
Daniel K. A.
Rachel, wow, sounds like luck. error becoming a good thing.
Elena
Elena
Jill, I think the lives lost were far more important than material things, places can be rebuilt and replaced, lives can't
Robert
Robert
Player #84132418, lots of other coastal areas unreported lost of lives even in Malaysia and other remote Beaches.. sad .