Early warning systems and fostering public awareness have improved. But gaps remain in policy implementation and infrastructure maintenance.

Ani was among the first people to be struck by the Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami twenty years ago when a series of huge waves triggered by an earthquake killed more than 230,000 people across 14 ...

At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day 2004, a major earthquake off the Western Coast of Sumatra ... The death toll includes those killed as far away as Somalia, where 300 people died. In Kenya, an early ...

Hear powerful survivor stories from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. It’s been 20 years since one of history’s deadliest natural disasters. Discover how tragedy defined a generation.

A HUGE 7.1-magnitude earthquake has hit near Tonga and Niue in the Pacific Ocean and prompted a tsunami warning. The US ...

Recounting that chaotic day in 2004, when the Boxing Day tsunami devastated the Indian Ocean basin, Ng described how packed his ambulance was. “Many injured people stopped us, needing transport ...

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 local geologist says the tectonic plate movement that caused last week's earthquake in Myanmar was also behind the 2004 ...