Boxing Day tsunami services mark 10-year anniversary. TENS of thousands of people have packed mosques, churches and Southeast Asia’s beaches to remember the 230,000 who lost their lives in the ...

Boxing Day tsunami . Just before 8am on December 26, 2004, a massive 9.3 scale earthquake struck off the west coast of Sumatra in northern Indonesia.

Mr Wordsworth, an aid worker, landed in Sri Lanka just after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami ravaged the island nation, killing more than 35,000 people out of a global death toll of about 230,000.

A woman who survived the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ago after being led to safety on the back of an elephant said it made her “grateful for everything".

The head of World Vision Australia has shared his devastating memories of the “profound devastation” caused by the Boxing Day Tsunami on the eve of the anniversary of one of the world’s ...