It is these tsunamis that critical infrastructure like power plants must prepare for. Nothing will entirely hold back a 2004-sized tsunami, but the goal is for structures to overflow without being ...

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war, triggered the worst rail accident in history and shattered the lives of millions. Twenty years on, those who escaped certain death share their stories.

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the ...