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 ...
Man who lost brother in tragic Boxing Day tsunami that killed 227,000 people speaks out on escaping horrific disaster
Luke Simon lost his brother, Piers, in the tsunami disaster in Thailand and has since spoken out on the anniversary of the ...
I lost my family in the Boxing Day tsunami, now I run the orphanage that saved me
Hudson Meek, the young actor who appeared in Baby Driver and CBS’s MacGyver reboot, has died. He was 16. Meek was pronounced ...
Boxing Day Tsunami: An elephant took me to safety
On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck ...
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Boxing Day tsunami remembered, 20 years on
Across south-east Asia, people marked the 20th anniversary on Boxing Day, gathering in prayer at mass-grave sites, in which ...
Man who survived tragic Boxing Day tsunami shares haunting two words he heard moments before
Luke Simon, who survived the devastated 2004 Boxing Day tsunami which killed his brother, has shared the haunting two words ...
'Boxing Day Tsunami 20 years ago today saw me lose my two sons and fiancé in an instant'
Sharon Howard has returned to Thailand to mark the 20th anniversary of losing her six-year-old son Taylor, his eight-year-old ...
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What we have learned in the 20 years since Boxing Day tsunami
Tsunami and earthquake data still isn’t shared widely around the world. Local authorities and experts often don’t communicate ...
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'I thought the world was ending during Boxing Day tsunami - I don't know how I survived'
A British man has recalled fears the world was ending as the Boxing Day tsunami devastated his home in Thailand 20 years ago. John Metcalfe had only been living there for two-and-a-half years.
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‘It was white water and chaos’, recalls Boxing Day tsunami survivor 20 years on
A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by “screaming and shouting” – two decades on ...
‘There was nothing but death and debris’ – The Boxing Day tsunami 20 years on
20 years later, one of the Matara train’s carriages sits outside the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing ...
It was just death and devastation absolutely everywhere after 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, say Australian forensic experts
When the destruction of the Boxing Day tsunami swept across 14 countries killing more than 227,000 people, it prompted an ...