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The moment was recorded on the island of Koh Ngai
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Reproduction/YouTube
A video taken hours before a tsunami devastated the Thailand In 2004, it went viral again on social media. The footage was posted on YouTube by Julian Hadden in 2013 and has more than 11 million views.
In the video you can see Julian walking across the island Koh Ngai, when the waves become more and more aggressive. While he was taking the picture, the sea reached the shore, causing those present at the scene to collect their belongings and leave the beach.
Little did Julian know during filming that the powerful waves were the start of a tsunami that would devastate the country. In the description of the video, he wrote: “In answer to the many questions all of us in this video are still alive. So we were on the land side of Koh Ngai island in Thailand.” We weren't hit directly“.
The 9.1 magnitude earthquake occurred on this day December 26, 2004 and caused a tsunami in the Indian Ocean. According to the BBC, it was the third strongest earthquake in the world since 1900 and the strongest since a 1964 earthquake that struck Alaska in the United States. The disaster struck 14 countries and continued 227,899 deadin addition to 1.7 million homeless people.