‘The Impossible’ True Story – Where Is the Real Family Now?

2012’s The Impossible arrived on Netflix this month. 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.

The destruction was caused by an underground earthquake, where one ocean plate slips below another. The two plates in this case were the Indian and Australian tectonic plates, comprising a 900-mile fault line. 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.

By the time the tsunami ended, eight hours later, some 200,000 people had lost their lives. The event remains the deadliest tsunami in recorded history.

The Impossible captures the moment the tsunami…