Survivors and victims’ relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220 000 people across more than a dozen countries.
The tsunami devastated communities around the ... relatives will next week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across ...
Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...
Vinitha, 9, who died during 2004 Tsunami in Seruthur, Nagapattinam. AP NAGAPATTINAM, India: He was a young boy playing cricket with friends on a beach around 9:30 in the morning when a 9.1 ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet high, killing an estimated 230,000 people. Twenty years later, people gathered ...
The ocean floor opened at least 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) in length between the India ... a tsunami wave forms. Experts said the lack of a properly coordinated warning system in 2004 had ...
December 26, 2004 [AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe] The Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the greatest disasters of the past 100 years. The worst hit was Indonesia where more than 165,000 people died.
It has been 20 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people and caused widespread destruction across 15 countries. At around 1 am local time on 26 December, a ...
The disaster, which became known as the Boxing Day Tsunami, took the lives of 227,898 ... years ago on a beach alongside her family. India, who is from Reading, told how the family were ...