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As the 10-year anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami ... Abnormal currents and ocean tides found their way around Australia's south-western tip from an earthquake epicentre ...

If the epicentre is under water and the magnitude large (greater than 6.5 on the Richter, or moment magnitude, scale) a tsunami bulletin, watch or warning is issued to local communication centres ...

The Boxing Day Tsunami killed more than 227,000 people, ... At 1.14am the tsunami struck the northern tip of Indonesia 65 miles from the epicentre – eventually claiming more than 167,000 lives.

The sounds of science Available Formats. MP3 (00:00:19; 388 Kb); That subdued roar is the sound of the massive earthquake that caused the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004. It's literally the sound of ...

Mourners place candles on the beach at Boxing Day tsunami memorial 20 years after deadly giant wave swept Indian Ocean and killed 230,000. By DAVID AVERRE and AP . Published: 10:47 EDT, 26 ...

In 2004 the Boxing Day tsunami took hundreds of thousands of lives. Today, Australia spearheads a warning system for the Indian Ocean. ... The source of the 2004 tsunami was a huge earthquake, ...

A tsunami hits the northern tip of Indonesia, just 65 miles from the epicentre, devastating the coast and eventually claiming more than 130,000 lives. More than half a million people lost their homes.

Geoscience Australia estimates the majority of 61,000 people killed in regions further afield from the Boxing Day earthquake’s epicentre may have been saved by the monitoring systems now in place.

On December 26 2004, a powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami which killed around 230,000 people across a dozen countries, reaching ...