Journalist Charles Miranda recounts the devastating scenes from the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami.Thursday marked the 20th anniversary since the Boxing Day tsunami killed more than 220,000 civilians including 26 Australians.

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"The tsunami was the catalyst for me finding my purpose, that second chance I got," she said. The 53-year-old has now written a memoir about her experiences of the tsunami and life afterwards, including being diagnosed with stage four cancer, and hopes it will inspire others.

Buildings completely destroyed, piles of rubble, boats in places they shouldn't naturally have been, dead bodies everywhere…'

20 years later, one of the Matara train’s carriages sits outside the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing Day of 2004. The effects of the 9.3 Richter scale earthquake did not relent until eight hours later, when unaware swimmers off the coast of South Africa felt the force of the waves.

This Boxing Day marks the 20th anniversary of the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history. On December 26, 2004, the region was struck by a devastating earthquake, measuring 9.1 on the Richter scale, triggering a massive tsunami that claimed the lives of about 230,000 people across 14 countries.

Twenty years ago, on Boxing Day, walls of water thundered into 14 countries around the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people. | ITV News

The last I saw of that room was the roof dropping down on us before we were washed out through the rear wall of the building'

She has written a book about her experience of being on the east coast of Sri Lanka when it hit.