When the earthquake struck, the world rattled; a 10-millimetre shudder on a planetary scale. Earth wobbled on its axis and ...

In minutes, the calm of a Boxing Day morning was ripped apart, the couple and their baby daughter swept away when their house ...

A two-minute silence was observed across Sri Lanka today (December 26) from 9:25 a.m. to 9:27 a.m. to honor the memory ...

“There wasn’t a lot done for tsunami in Australia before ... people killed in regions further afield from the Boxing Day earthquake’s epicentre may have been saved by the monitoring systems ...

TSUNAMI survivor Sharon Howard sobs as she lays flowers at the Thailand hotel where she last saw her fiance and two sons 20 ...

Thousands of people gathered in prayer as they visited mass grave sites in Indonesia's Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean Boxing Day tsunami, one of modern history's ...

facing the earthquake’s epicenter, bore the brunt of the waves, affecting settlements on the east coast. The tsunami displaced many families and devastated villages and communities in the affected ...

Visitors looks at a wall displaying the names of the victims of 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, at the Tsunami Museum in Banda ...

The Aceh Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh houses photos of the aftermath and vehicle debris, serving as a constant reminder of what was lost that day. Local authorities have also turned a former ...

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war ... Sri Lanka is about 1,700 kilometres from the quake's epicentre.(ABC News: Jarrod Fankhauser) Tracks twisted by the force of water.( ...