Thursday marked the 20th anniversary since the Boxing Day tsunami killed more than 220,000 civilians including 26 Australians. The 9.1 magnitude earthquake devastated the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

It was the worst tsunami disaster in history. The clearing-up process in Galle, southern Sri Lanka, in 2004 The Boxing Day earthquake struck at 7.59am local time and, during the day, multiple ...

Germany's GFZ centre for geosciences had earlier pegged the earthquake at magnitude 6.6. The quake struck six miles deep, far shallower than the 18-mile deep Boxing Day tsunami. But a shallow ...

A HUGE 7.1-magnitude earthquake has hit near Tonga and Niue ... The quake struck six miles deep, far shallower than the Boxing Day tsunami, which was 18 miles deep. A shallow quake would shake ...