Commemorazioni 20 anni dopo lo tsunami in Thailandia

(ANSA) - ROMA, 26 DIC - epa11793660 A Thai villager searches for the name of his beloved wife on a memorial wall during a religious memorial service to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 2004 tsunami at Tsunami Memorial Park in Ban Nam Khem, Phang Nga province, southern Thailand, 26 December 2024.
    Thailand commemorates the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which struck on 26 December 2004, triggered by a 9. 2 magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The tsunami claimed over 220,000 lives, internally displaced more than half a million people, and left hundreds of thousands without livelihoods, according to the United Nations, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives, and Thailand sustained massive damage from the catastrophe. EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT (ANSA).