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What would become known as the world's worst tsunami and remains the most devastating disaster to tear through Asia was triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.
When the tsunami hits, 11-year-old Louis Mullan (pictured here during an interview) and his 15-year-old brother Theo Mullan are on holiday with their parents in Khao Lak, Thailand.
A tsunami warning was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre covering Vanuatu, Fiji, the Kermadec Islands, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Wallis and Futuna, [36] with waves expected to reach 1 m (3 ft 3 in). [50] This was lifted on 14:14 VUT. [29]
The wave caught the Japanese off guard, not knowing its origin, and was explained in the book, The Orphan Tsunami. [83] 1703 Kanto, Japan 1703 Genroku earthquake: Earthquake On 31 December, 1703, an 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck Edo. A tsunami up to 11.7 metres (38 ft) high was recorded along the coast of the Kantō Region. Official reports ...
A British woman who went missing after a tsunami in Tonga has died, according to her family. Angela Glover, from Brighton, died after an undersea volcano erupted near the Pacific nation on ...
The humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake of a magnitude of 9.1 was prompted by one of the worst natural disasters of modern times. On December 26, 2004, the earthquake , which struck off the northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra , generated a tsunami that wreaked havoc along much of the rim of the Indian Ocean.
People gathered at mass graves in Indonesia, Thailand and other places along the Indian Ocean
A massive tsunami with waves up to 30 m (100 ft) high, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami after the Boxing Day holiday, or as the Asian Tsunami, [10] devastated communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries, violently in Aceh , and severely in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu , and Khao Lak ...