The huge waves travelled around the Indian Ocean, hitting Sri Lanka ... minutes after a tsunami wave forms. Experts said the lack of a properly coordinated warning system in 2004 had made the ...

A few days after the tsunami had hit, a call came in from one of our agents in Sri Lanka. They described how in some places, the water had come in more than 2km inland and how over 30,000 had been ...

COLOMBO: Twenty years after the massive Indian Ocean tsunami wreaked havoc on Sri Lanka, some survivors are ... affected when the tsunami on Dec 26, 2004 ravaged over two-thirds of the country ...

Two decades ago, as thousands of vacationers scattered across the sunlit shores of Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka on ... 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest ...

Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. More than 170,000 people died in Indonesia alone. A woman sprinkles water on a stone marking a mass grave of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Banda Aceh ...

Kurukkalmadam, Sri Lanka — Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, the boy once ...

More than 35,000 were killed in Sri Lanka, with 16,389 killed in India ... can never be completely prevented. Citation: 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: what to know 20 years on (2024, December 26 ...