On 26 December 2004 during a Christmas holiday and Boxing Day celebration, a thousands of Swedish people in Thailand and the other part across the region of South and Southeast Asia were among thousands of people killed by the catastrophic tsunami from the magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake off Indonesian island's west coast of Sumatra, and many thousands are suffered from the significant loss of Scandinavian lives. A memorial service held at Storkyrkan in Stockholm in January 2005. On behalf of all Scandinavians.