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 was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the deadliest tsunami in human history.
Boxing Day tsunami: Forensic investigator reflects on disaster 20 years on
As a highly-skilled forensic investigation expert, Peter Baines has encountered more death than anyone could ever fathom. After the devastating Bali bombings back in 2002, he was sent over to the holiday island as a detective inspector with NSW Police to help identify the bodies of those killed in the blast.
Boxing Day, marks the 20th year since one of the world's most significant natural disasters, the Sumatra earthquake.
He said all he could see was "white water and chaos". "I leapt out of bed to the window to see a great wall of white water, ...
Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal regions around Asia, Tamara Davison travels to one of the areas that ...
Twenty years on, the Boxing Day tsunami is being remembered for the extraordinary devastation it unleashed, the incredible ...
The couple were on holiday with family on Vilamendhoo island in the Maldives, where they noticed the usually still water ...
Faisal Syafii lost his home, business and first wife, Siti Syamsiah, during the Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago today.
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