Countries across Asia held ceremonies to remember the hundreds of thousands of people who were killed during the massive ...

MOURNERS wept today as they marked the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000 ... tremor ever recorded struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra in 2004 and triggered ...

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

The tsunami was triggered by a powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra ... nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to this day. Mourners shed tears and comforted each other ...

Journalist Charles Miranda reflects on the 20-year passing since the Boxing Day tsunami. Thursday marked the 20th anniversary ...

“I thought it was doomsday,” said Hasnawati, a 54-year-old teacher who goes by one name, at the Indonesian mosque, which was damaged by the tsunami. “On a Sunday morning where our family ...

In the wake of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, caused by the third ... was just 100 miles off the coast of Indonesia. The massive Indian Plate slide around 50ft under the Burma Plate just ...

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

People have gathered in prayer and visited the mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, one of modern history's worst natural disasters.

Mr Poole said the Boxing Day tsunami had a significant impact on how non-governmental organisations and governments deal with disasters. Rachel Harvey, from near Totnes in south Devon, had been ...