On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing ... Indonesia, for about two years when the earthquake struck. Twenty minutes later, a tsunami ...

On 26 December 2004 ... of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest fault length of any recorded earthquake (1,500km long), and releasing energy equivalent to 23,000 atomic bombs. The tsunami ...

Across south-east Asia, people marked the 20th anniversary on Boxing Day, gathering in prayer at mass-grave sites, in which ...

A Boxing Day Surprise: An Earthquake and Tsunami The 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck at 7:59 a.m. Dec. 26, 2004, creating a rupture ... Oceanside cities in Sumatra were the first to be hit ...

One of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami marks its 20th anniversary on Dec. 26 ...

The tsunami was triggered by a powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on 26 December ... in memory of the victims of the 2004 tsunami on the 20th anniversary of ...

MOURNERS wept today as they marked the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000. They gathered along shores to honour those who died when huge waves triggered by a ...

20 years later, one of the Matara train’s carriages sits outside the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing ...

Twenty years after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami caused unimaginable devastation across 14 countries, reminders of that ...

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 ...