Tsunami - Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand

On December 26, 2004, Patong Beach along with many other areas along the western coast of Phuket and Thailand were struck by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The wave caused a great deal of destruction to the waterfront of the beach and immediately inland, and many people were killed there.

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News & Politics

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• tsunami
• disaster
• patong
• beach
• phuket
• thailand

[superbogag]

I hope this would never happen to my country.

[Roblok100]

Asians get it SO bad :( Tsunamis,hunger,water shortage,earthquakes,nuclear disasters,getting NUKED. I'm Japanese and THANK GOD I was born in Canada!

[delaney12]

@TheDoovdeLctv not funny u little cunt

[HorseMad0]

I was there ............ it's the most horrific thing ive ever experienced ....

[astma1337]

i was in bangkok when this happening. we are going to phuket when i just turn on the tv to watch. some good programs and then on all channels there was news about the tsunami and i think no its cant happent thailand:S so i show the tv to my mom and dad . so we couldn't travel there

[yasmin4528]

i was up north in chiang mai when this happened

i will never forget that day

my aunty and uncle live in phuket and they nearly died!!

i was soo scared whne it came on the news

first thing came to my mind was

AUNTY UNCLE!!

BUT IT WAS LUCKY

[singingmagpie93]

We flew in a plane above the wave ô.o A half an hour earlier and we would have been dead...!

[geoffphuket]

That was certainly a day I'll never forget. Only by sheer luck I wasn't on the beach at the time

[givemebillions]

Amazing footage... RIP all the peeps who died that sad day.