Boxing Day tsunami: here’s what we have learned in the 20 years since the deadliest natural disaster in modern history
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...
20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami: How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived
How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived - Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal ...
'Surviving the Boxing Day tsunami gave me a second chance'
"The tsunami was the catalyst for me finding my purpose, that second chance I got," she said. The 53-year-old has now written ...
Tearful mourners mark 20th anniversary of Boxing Day tsunami
Tearful mourners across Asia have commemorated the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines ...
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Survivor of Boxing Day tsunami recounts horror on 20th anniversary of disaster
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 ...
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Tearful mourners mark 20th anniversary of Boxing Day tsunami
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 ...