Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ... stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.
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 ...
Three weeks after the tsunami, and 20 years ago this week, WISH-TV sent Eric Halvorson and Kevin Conners to witness for our viewers how far their donated dollars would go in such a crisis.
open image in gallery India women offer tributes in memory of the victims of the 2004 tsunami on the 20th anniversary of the tragedy (AP) Today, many wept as they placed flowers at a mass grave in ...
Spurred on by the horrors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, three friends came together with the idea of staging a ...
On Dec 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a huge tsunami with waves up to 30m high. Only a rudimentary warning system was in place at the time, with no way to ...
Across south-east Asia, people marked the anniversary on Boxing Day ... He is now director of the Asia region for the charity. “The 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami unleashed catastrophic destruction on my ...
It was like any other day for Sri Lankan safari guide Priyantha (Pusa) Hettiarachige as he prepared to welcome guests to Yala National Park on 26 December 2004. The famed natural site was brimming ...
The tsunami devastated communities around the ... an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. – Huge death toll – A total ...