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

Countries across Asia held ceremonies to remember the hundreds of thousands of people who were killed during the massive Indian Ocean tsunami two decades ago. People gathered in prayer and visited ...

“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 ...

On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck ...

The aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia (ShelterBox) Ms Harvey, who also joined ShelterBox as a ...

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Chief Herald photographer Nick Moir flew into Banda Aceh the day after the Boxing ... Indonesian he recounted seeing the wave approach; he climbed a coconut palm and rode out the ...

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war ... rotation and left almost a quarter of a million people dead. Sumatra, Indonesia. "I saw this huge, black, 40-foot wave coming and instantly ...

A tsunami warning system was built after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami catastrophe but can we ever be thoroughly prepared for ...

The aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia (ShelterBox) Ms Harvey, who also joined ShelterBox as a result of her experience covering the impact of the tsunami in Banda Aceh ...

Indonesia and Thailand are marking 20 years since a tsunami caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people in one of the ...