British Red Cross18d
The Indian Ocean Boxing Day Tsunami, twenty years on
At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day ... early tsunami alert issued by the authorities and the Red Cross helped minimise loss of life. In the hours, days and weeks afterwards, an unprecedented local ...
The Impartial Reporter8d
Victims and survivors of Boxing Day tsunami remembered 20 years on
Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which ...
Oxford Mail10d
Why do they call it Boxing Day? How Victorians invented it
National Geographic explains: “Though Northern Ireland celebrates Boxing Day, the Republic of Ireland to the south celebrates St. Stephen’s Day instead. And on December 26, pockets of people ...