On Christmas Day, we had a barbecue in Maya Bay ... but slowly the water went down. In fear of another tsunami, I headed to the hotel staircase for a second time. As I entered, I glimpsed my ...

A man caught up in a devastating tsunami 20 years ago has recalled the final moments before his older brother was swept away by the water. Luke Simon, from Somerset, was celebrating Christmas with his ...

the world was stunned by the Asian tsunami, whose towering waves killed an estimated 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and other countries the day after Christmas.

Two decades ago, as thousands of vacationers scattered across the sunlit shores of Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka on Christmas getaways ... The resulting tsunami unleashed waves more than ...

Two decades after the devastating 2004 tsunami, thousands of tourists returned to Thailand’s Andaman Sea coast to celebrate Christmas on Wednesday. The celebrations took place under the bright ...

A chilling warning has been issued as children break up for Christmas - amid a tsunami of festive flu flooding hospital with three bugs rife. The latest figures published by NHS England today show ...

“Tsunami is a Japanese word,” said Syamsidik ... That changed the day after Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth ...

That’s how Vasily Titov, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Center for Tsunami Research ... early hours of the day after Christmas 2004 — 20 years ago ...

An Irish survivor of the 2004 south-east Asian tsunami has revealed how her father — who also escaped from the disaster — ...

Twenty years ago, Petra Nemcova was waking up the morning after Christmas and preparing to ... Simon Atlee, when a tsunami ripped through their bungalow along the Andaman coast.