{"id":40952,"date":"2026-02-13T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/?p=40952"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:36:35","slug":"2004-boxing-day-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/2026\/02\/13\/2004-boxing-day-tsunami\/","title":{"rendered":"2004 Boxing Day Tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Approximately 230,000 people died in the 2004 Indian Ocean\u00a0 tsunami. It is one of the most deadliest disasters in modern history.<\/li>\n<li>On December 26, 2004, at 7:59 <span class=\"text-smallcaps\">am<\/span>\u00a0local time, an undersea\u00a0<a class=\"md-crosslink \" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/earthquake-geology\" data-show-preview=\"true\">earthquake<\/a>\u00a0with a magnitude of 9.1 struck off the\u00a0<a class=\"md-crosslink autoxref \" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/coast\" data-show-preview=\"true\">coast<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a class=\"md-crosslink \" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Indonesia\" data-show-preview=\"true\">Indonesian<\/a>\u00a0island of\u00a0<a class=\"md-crosslink \" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Sumatra\" data-show-preview=\"true\">Sumatra<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>in 2024 &#8211;\u00a0 Ten years on, many coastal towns and villages have rebuilt their communities and lives.\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/mcs\/media\/images\/79843000\/jpg\/_79843070_tsunami_arrival_time_624.jpg\" alt=\"Map Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004\" \/>bey by david<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 230,000 people died in the 2004 Indian Ocean\u00a0 tsunami. It is one of the most deadliest disasters in modern history. On December 26, 2004, at 7:59 am\u00a0local time, an undersea\u00a0earthquake\u00a0with a magnitude of 9.1 struck off the\u00a0coast\u00a0of the\u00a0Indonesian\u00a0island of\u00a0Sumatra. in 2024 &#8211;\u00a0 Ten years on, many coastal towns and villages have rebuilt their communities &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/2026\/02\/13\/2004-boxing-day-tsunami\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2004 Boxing Day Tsunami&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40960,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40952\/revisions\/40960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HolywoodHullabaloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}