Every day, navy and coast guard ships brought boatloads of people made homeless by the tsunami from other islands to Port Blair where schools and government buildings were turned into temporary ...

FIRST RESPONSE: Police Commissioner Mike Bush (second from right), pictured at Wat Yan Yao Mortuary, was the first New Zealand police officer to respond to the disaster.Ten One / None Ten years ...

A total of 128 people died — including 16 who were further away from the epicentre in California — and the cost of the damage totalled $895 million (£704m).

2004 ended with one of history’s deadliest natural disasters - the Boxing Day Tsunami - where an estimated 225 thousand people were killed. The 9-magnitude earthquake struck 160 kilometres off ...

Image failed to load On this day in 2004, the Boxing Day Tsunami wrought intense devastation to coastlines across the Indian Ocean. Like most tsunamis, the Boxing Day Tsunami began with a massive ...

The epicentre of the earthquake that triggered the tsunami, one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history, was just 100 miles off the coast of Indonesia.

News Greater Manchester News World news Shattered and broken, survivors of the Boxing Day disaster arrived home to Manchester Airport On December 26, 2004, a massive tsunami killed more than ...

The epicentre of the earthquake that triggered the tsunami was just 100 miles off the coast of Indonesia. The massive Indian Plate slid around 50ft under the Burma Plate just before 8am local time ...

At 1.14am the tsunami struck the northern tip of Indonesia 65 miles from the epicentre – eventually claiming more than 167,000 lives. At around 2.30am, the colossal waves hit Thailand, claiming ...

On Boxing Day, 2004, I had a close call. Thousands who perished were not so lucky. Follow BBC News India on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

Boxing Day, 2004. When the earthquake struck at 06:30 (01:00 GMT), I was on a ferry, headed towards Havelock – an island in the Indian archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar.