It’s been 20 years since a devastating earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a killer tsunami that swept away over 225,000 ...
Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...
The 2004 tsunami which killed around 230,000 people ... Our expert guest is Ani Naqvi, a former journalist who was on holiday in Sri Lanka when the wave hit. We also hear from the two Polish ...
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Hoosier Jim Morris was serving as the head of the World Food Programme, which had been providing aid to the island of Sri ...
The tsunami of December 2004 was easily the biggest natural disaster to strike Sri Lanka and left a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. Nearly 38,000 lives were lost and two-thirds of the ...
The eight-carriage train carries around 1,700 passengers travelling from Sri Lanka’s largest city of Colombo to the city of Galle on the south of the island. It is Sunday, December 26, 2004 ...
December 26 marked 20 years since a massive tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, leaving death and destruction in its wake on a vast scale in country after country. Officially, an estimated ...
Millions of Americans are under weather warnings or advisories today as the U.S. braces for a new winter storm this week. A ...
A lead time of two hours was available before the tsunami could potentially strike - as it eventually did - coasts of India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. The disaster would have been mitigated if ...
Sri Lanka's foreign minister said on Wednesday that the South Asian island nation had signed an agreement with Chinese state energy giant Sinopec to fast-track a proposed $3.7 billion oil refinery ...
The vastness of the inundation deeply affected Sri Lanka’s communities and structures, underscoring the tsunami’s immense destructive capability. The magnitude of inland reach was a key factor in the ...