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 ...
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 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 ...
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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 ...
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Boxing Day tsunami a ‘reminder’ to keep loved ones ‘close to you’
Thursday marked the 20th anniversary since the Boxing Day tsunami killed more than 220,000 civilians including 26 Australians ...
Boxing Day Tsunami: An elephant took me to safety
On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck ...
How the Boxing Day tsunami 20 years ago changed the lives of two Cornish men
Twenty years ago, on Boxing Day, walls of water thundered into 14 countries around the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 ...
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Mourners place candles on the beach at Boxing Day tsunami memorial 20 years after deadly giant wave swept Indian Ocean and killed 230,000
Thousands of mourners descended on beaches throughout Southeast Asia today to lay candles at memorial sites marking 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean Boxing Day tsunami, one of modern ...
Tearful mourners mark 20th anniversary of Boxing Day tsunami
Victims of one of world’s worst natural disasters, which killed 220,000 people from Indonesia to Somalia, commemorated two ...
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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 ... tremor ever recorded struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra in 2004 and triggered ...
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Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies
The tsunami was triggered by a powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra ... nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to this day. Mourners shed tears and comforted each other ...