Boxing Day tsunami: here’s what we have learned in the 20 years since the deadliest natural disaster in modern history
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...
Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies
In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore ...
'Surviving the Boxing Day tsunami gave me a second chance'
"The tsunami was the catalyst for me finding my purpose, that second chance I got," she said. The 53-year-old has now written ...
Boxing Day tsunami a reminder we are all in harm’s way
A tsunami warning system was built after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami catastrophe but can we ever be thoroughly prepared for ...
Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years since devastating Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000 across a dozen countries
Indonesia and Thailand are marking 20 years since a tsunami caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people in one of the ...
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Boxing Day tsunami remembered, 20 years on
Across south-east Asia, people marked the 20th anniversary on Boxing Day, gathering in prayer at mass-grave sites, in which ...
Devon woman describes 'apocalyptic' scenes after Boxing Day tsunami
Buildings completely destroyed, piles of rubble, boats in places they shouldn't naturally have been, dead bodies everywhere…' ...
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‘We came together’: Boxing Day tsunami 20 years on
December 26 marks 20 years since a major earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people ...
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Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies
Some 1.7 million people were displaced, mostly in the four worst-affected countries, but Indonesia ... day. Mourners shed tears and comforted each other as they laid flowers at the village’s ...
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Cornish surfer who survived Boxing Day tsunami recalls 'white water and chaos'
The last I saw of that room was the roof dropping down on us before we were washed out through the rear wall of the building' ...
‘We had the money and the will to help’: John Howard reflects on $1bn Boxing Day tsunami aid
John Howard knew he had to act quickly to help Indonesia after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami unleashed destruction and terror ...
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Families of Boxing Day tsunami victims weep as they mark 20th anniversary of one of the world’s worst natural disasters
MOURNERS wept today as they marked the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000 ... More than 170,000 people died in Indonesia, where waves were over 100ft high on landfall.