{"id":74229,"date":"2024-12-26T14:51:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T14:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/boxing-day-2004-tsunami-in-indian-ocean-remembered-20-years-on-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T14:51:56","slug":"boxing-day-2004-tsunami-in-indian-ocean-remembered-20-years-on-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/boxing-day-2004-tsunami-in-indian-ocean-remembered-20-years-on-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day 2004 tsunami in Indian Ocean remembered 20 years on | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 26 December 2004, Boxing Day, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of northwest Sumatra under the Indian <!--more--> Ocean, unleashing a devastating tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>It killed an estimated 228,000 people across more than a dozen countries and caused massive damage in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The Andaman and Nicobar islands, located just about 100km north of the epicentre, suffered extensive damage when a wall of water, as high as 15 metres (49 ft) in places, hit land just about 15 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Countries across the Indian Ocean have been remembering the catastrophic event 20 years on.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Tsunami #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 26 December 2004, Boxing Day, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of northwest Sumatra under the Indian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}