Nearly 5,400 people in Thailand would lose their lives, including 2,000 foreign tourists.Īmong the tourists who would survive were María Belón, Enrique Alvárez, and their three children Lucas, Simón, and Tomás.

When the tsunami reached Thailand over an hour later, waves were still traveling at 500 mph. The Aftermath is a 2019 mystery horror drama film directed by James Kent and written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Rhidian Brook.It stars Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård and Jason Clarke.The film had its world premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival on 26 February 2019. The Impossible captures the moment the tsunami made landfall in Thailand-the second location after Sumatra, which was hit first and where almost 100,000 people were killed instantly. The event remains the deadliest tsunami in recorded history.

The earthquake-a 9.1 magnitude, and so one of the largest ever recorded-triggered a tsunami by causing the ocean floor to suddenly rise by 40 meters.īy the time the tsunami ended, eight hours later, some 200,000 people had lost their lives. The two plates in this case were the Indian and Australian tectonic plates, comprising a 900-mile fault line. The destruction was caused by an underground earthquake, where one ocean plate slips below another. The film tells the story of a family struggling to survive in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which made landfall and ripped across several countries, including Thailand, where the family had been vacationing during the Christmas holidays. 2012’s The Impossible arrived on Netflix this month.

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