Khao Lak Tsunami Memorials and Cemetery - Remembering What Happened - Thailand 2022

Thailand was one of the countries that was hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Due to proximity of the Andaman coasts of Thailand situated just about 500 km east of the earthquake epicenter, the tsunami took just 2 hours to reach and strike the western coastline of the country. The Thai government reported 4,812 confirmed deaths, 8,457 injured, and 4,499 missing after the country was hit by a tsunami caused by the Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004.

Khao Lak 80 km north of Phuket, was devastated with 3,950 confirmed deaths, however, the death toll in Khao Lak may have exceeded 4,500.

Just north of the Khao Lak area, the village of Ban Nam Khem was the worst affected in terms of devastation to the local population, with around a quarter of its population of 4,200 lost to the tsunami and 80 percent of homes destroyed.

This video contains sensitive raw footage from the Thailand tsunami in 2004. If you are in presence of kids and sensitive people please fast forward past the raw video of the Tsunami.

We visit the tsunami memorial in Khao Lak, the tsunami victims cemetery and the Baan Nam Kem Tsunami Memorial north of Khao Lak.

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