Today, Phuket boasts enhanced tsunami defences, including 13 warning towers along its west coast and a buoy detection system offering up to 2.5 hours’ warning. Regular evacuation drills and community ...

Two major tsunami that swamped the east coast have been labelled a "missed opportunities", so what do we need to change to be ...

Thousands of mourners descended on beaches throughout Southeast Asia today to lay candles at memorial sites marking 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean Boxing Day tsunami, one of modern ...

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the ...

ON Dec. 26, 2004, the world witnessed what has become known as the Boxing Day or Indian Ocean Tsunami, a natural disaster of such appalling magnitude that even now, two decades later, it boggles the ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people . It was the deadliest natural disaster this ...

Twenty years after the catastrophic Boxing Day Tsunami killed some 230,000 people around the Indian Ocean, tsunamis have again been in the news recently in the wake of warnings in the Pacific ...

Craig David, Katherine Jenkins, Goldie Looking Chain and Jools Holland among performers looking back on Wales’ monumental ...

Luke Simon, who survived the devastated 2004 Boxing Day tsunami which killed his brother, has shared the haunting two words ...

Thousands of people gathered in prayer as they visited mass grave sites in Indonesia's Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean Boxing Day tsunami, one of modern history's ...

Twenty years ago today, the rising and falling floor of the Indian Ocean sent tsunamis ... in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, brought out the best in the world ...