"The tsunami was the catalyst for me finding my purpose, that second chance I got," she said. The 53-year-old has now written ...
Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal regions around Asia, Tamara Davison travels to one of the areas that ...
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...
Tearful mourners across Asia have commemorated the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean. On December 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off ...
The wall of water and debris hit coastal resorts in South East Asian countries including Thailand, Indonesia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The Boxing Day Tsunami, as it became known, killed more ...
Boxing Day marks 20 years since a powerful 9.1 ... His family created the James Hurren Tsunami Fund in his memory to raise money to help children in some of the worst hit areas. Tragically, James's ...
Survivors of the Boxing Day Tsunami and relatives of those who were killed joined memorials in Thailand today on the 20th anniversary of the disaster. Footage shows families laying flowers in Phuket ...
A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ago unharmed ... Ningnong who she was riding at the time the first wave hit. Miss Owen's story inspired the children's ...
Now an emergency co-ordinator with disaster relief charity ShelterBox, Mr Poole said the Boxing Day tsunami had a significant ... “We got into Aceh two days after the tsunami hit and none ...
On Boxing Day ... It hit 240km from the coast and 49km below the ocean floor and is estimated to have released energy equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. As a result, a huge tsunami ...
Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 ... “We got into Aceh two days after the tsunami hit and none of us was prepared for what we witnessed,” she said.
I had no idea what had hit. I didn’t see what had happened ... Ani was among the first people to be struck by the Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami twenty years ago when a series of huge waves ...