Twenty years after an Indian Ocean tsunami killed thousands, Riley Kehoe recalls the terror she felt as a girl facing a ...

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 ...

Hoosier Jim Morris was serving as the head of the World Food Programme, which had been providing aid to the island of Sri ...

LOVE Island star India Reynolds revealed the terrifying ordeal that left her family separated in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.

From tariffs, to immigration, and the Russia-Ukraine war, Donald Trump has a long to-do list once he enters the Oval Office. What will his priorities be? Teresa Tang previews the presidential ...

The in-depth story of the Sri Lanka Tsunami Train Disaster 2004 (a Train ... It is Sunday, December 26, 2004, Boxing Day. For most passengers, however, today is Poya Day, a Buddhist holiday ...

The disaster, which became known as the Boxing Day Tsunami, took the lives of 227,898 ... India, who is from Reading, told how the family were in Sri Lanka at the time the disaster struck.

He is now director of the Asia region for the charity. “The 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami unleashed catastrophic destruction on my home country, Sri Lanka,” he said. “The scale of the devastation was ...

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian ... Measuring inundation depth at a house damaged by the 2004 tsunami, during the authors’ field survey in Polhena, Sri Lanka | Ravindra Jayaratne After ...

With a two minutes silence observed nationally, Sri Lanka on Thursday marked the 20th anniversary of the South Asian Tsunami that had killed over 30,000 in the island nation. Sri Lanka marks Dec. 26 ...

Faisal Syafii's wife had just brought him coffee when the earth started shaking on Boxing Day ... tsunami that devastated coastal areas of South-east Asia, including Aceh in Indonesia, Sri Lanka ...