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Asian Tsunami Five-Year Anniversary: Memories In Videos & Photos
Today marks the five-year anniversary of the 2004 Asian tsunami that killed over 230,000 people, and became the fifth deadliest earthquake in human history. On December 26, 2004, the so-called Boxing Day tsunami has come crashing on the shores of eleven countries with hardest hit being the resort nations of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives and Thailand. An undersea earthquake with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia had a magnitude of 9.1-9.3 and became the driving force for the massive tsunami with waves up to 30 meters high. The devastation that the earthquake and tsunami caused left thousands of people homeless. In all, $7 billion has been donated to the rescue funds in the years after the tsunami. But, many victims of the tsunami still remain without permanent homes.
Today, prayers were said all over Asia for the people who perished as the result of the 2004 tsunami. A moment of silence was observed in many places. Commemorating services were also held in Europe and North America for the hundreds of tourists who were killed by the tsunami while on vacation. Incidentally, a 6.7 magnitude undersea earthquake shook Indonesia's Maluku Island today, but no deaths or damages have been reported.
To this day, the videos & photos showing the devastation and aftermath from the deadly Asian tsunami are a painful reminder of one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in history. We have attached a gallery of tsunami footage with this article.
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at 17:47 on December 26th, 2009
Thank you for this, Yuliya.
at 17:53 on December 26th, 2009
One sad anniversary this is. Many have still not recovered from it and the losses of life are still felt deeply in many families.
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Kharami Taraden Sunato (not verified)at 22:13 on January 3rd, 2010
There are tragedies and there are victories. The story of tragedy has not been told except for the true aftermath. There was a decision that was made, all can see who was with that decision. In the heart of meditation I was forewarned of this day, Boxing Day. I was informed through a voice, a nameless deity spoke to me and showed me what is called Boxing Day in advance. In the vision that was revealed to me there was a story about the day in advance. The story was, these people will die and so shall you Kharami if you don't care to understand what's been revealed to you now. I took the message that I saw in the message that I heard and I trusted and believed in it. I moved out from the islands in the wave came 7 1/2 weeks later. I was devastated by becoming aware of the real events, but it would take me months to rediscover how much I knew the event precognitively. I like the compassionate you, wanted to warn everybody of the impending energy flows. The wave. The challenge, which was my problem at the time was I believed in this precognition for myself and for my loved ones but I did not have the wherewithal to work with anyone else's skepticism. I barely believe what I saw in my mind's eye and through my hearts vision but I definitely, at the time, lacked the mental fortitude to convince others of what was coming. The voice I received, this divine communication told me to keep the vision silent and to myself or I was warned I would die to because of my sharing would weaken me for I would begin to believe those who would undoubtedly doubt and lightly ridicule me. If I was able to withstand the light ridicule that I would have gotten from those who pride themselves on concrete thinking, I for sure-would not have survived heavy ridicule. It is in this way, that I spoke not, cancel the Wing Chun /Yoga & Massage business I had planned for Phuket's beach in the south of Patong. I asked about those who would die... would I lose anybody I loved? I was told, I would lose people I knew and perhaps loved but I would not lose anybody I might truly miss. The voice was very clear, non-judgmental, and carefully even precisely neutral. I cannot apologize for the victory of the forewarning I received. As a monk, I had spent very little time in verified active Buddhist study, however-as one who works with The Spirit, I have a been exploring with deep consistency and a respectable due diligence the beauty and phenomena of life as we know it from around the time I was diagnosed with a supposedly very rare bone cancer at Stanford Hospital, California USA. From that time at the age of around 23 till now at the age of a young 35, clairvoyant happenings have graced my minds eye so many times since that rather shell shocking day of diagnosis. A day of diagnosis were to explain it briefly all the light of my life for lack of more poetic terms shrunk down to what would be as if a pin drop in the center of my head. Keeping it simple, I might as well have been hit in the head with a sledgehammer. Upon recovering in the moments for minutes after the diagnosis I regain myself and did what I could from my doctor who was devastated and crying in front of me from having to deliver what was practically speaking a sentence of guantelate and the holy Grail proportions. Without going further into how I conquered being told I had a year to live I will share with you the moral of this natural story regarding disasters in seeming natural or man-made accidents even deaths and murders. The natures of these things are to be revealed to those who study with significant and practical relaxed yet enthusiastic to diligence of the esoteric arts as well as the practical sciences of Buddhism, martial arts, Taoism, yoga, Christ centered meditative practices as well as those who are honorably inclined to work with their own natural and indigenous healing or magic refining nature arts. The Buddha had said if you practice deeply in long enough at the least you will die unconfused. To me this means quite profoundly I will or the student will understand the process of life before they leave the planet this lifetime. This is a profound communication of the Buddha who had also once communicated that he was just a man. In the spirit of being just a man you are encouraged and invited to take any frustrations worries or concerns you might have been especially for those who find himself what they feel is honorably revengeful, angry or defiant of rules regulations or limitations that they feel have been unjustly put upon them... I treasure the possibility of your becoming aware of what is the most practical and beneficial work study science and art of earthly living. Meditation. For those who may be upset with me I apologize in advance for the truth for as in America there is a popular teaching I had received from Anthony Robbins on behalf of if memory serves me correctly Descartese, and the teaching or saying is this first the truth shall go through ridicule, second the truth shall go through violent suppression, third the truth shall be accepted as self-evident and practical. There are those who would disagree with what I communicate here now and for that... Victory Requires No Alibi. For those who have lost someone dear when the time is right begin a new level of prayer, begin a new level of insight and when the time is right or you're feeling okay and you're ready to face things that frighten most prepare yourself to communicate to those who have lost an even further than that prepare to receive their communication back to. I suggest to anyone who lost loved ones that the deepest of levels and I apologize about this, the laws of attraction and manifestation the inner certainty of gravity and thoughts mixed together within the self harmonized with circumstances evenly. I admit, it is a challenging truth to become aware of and yet this truth has been part of human evolution from the beginning way before it was ever written on the Philosopher's Stone "as above, so below" and "as above, so below". I will answer this for you because I know it must be answered... and the question some might have who have read this far would be to does that suffer deserve what happened to them? And the answer is no one deserves pain or suffering, no one deserved the destruction on this day and all the challenges while the pains even financial losses that came from an event that many would agree was outrageously shocking to the goodness of all who can understand the events that had happened. One of the events that have happened for me and I'm sure for some others is simply becoming aware of what was to come. The true danger and devastation has a heart that has given up on life or mind that too often or too longingly believes much too heavily in random damage, terrible events, or for the most unhealthy beliefs of all... you never know when your time is up. Those who hold these previous views beliefs were heavy type of negative feelings can smile on the outside but the inner current and the outer current will always synergize. Karma is best understood as thoughts and feelings and actions will bring about that which you think about. I will be open to sincere questions from curious concerns of those interested in invisible knowledges or compassionate dialogs. I shared this here, in writing, for the first time in my public life December 3 10:10 PM in the year of 2010. Nameste- .KharamiSunato.com