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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 ...
The Tsunami hit Unawatuna beach just before 09:30 local time on Boxing Day 2004 [PA Media] Two Channel Island residents have shared their memories of the Boxing Day Indian Ocean earthquake and ...
Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami ...
"The wave came in and just took her, it just took her away." On Boxing Day 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that raced towards shorelines around the Indian Ocean.
Malé, the capital island of the Maldives was severely hit by the tsunami. In the independent republic of Maldives , all islands except for 9 were hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. 82 people were killed and 24 reported missing and presumed dead after the archipelago was hit by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 ...
A BBC reporter looks back to the day in 2004 when the tsunami hit while she was on the Andaman and Nicobar islands. ... Boxing Day, 2004. When the earthquake struck at 06:30 (01:00 GMT), I was on ...
The train which was struck by the tsunami. Remains of a house near Telwatte, photographed in March 2008. In Ampara District alone, more than 10,000 people died. A holiday train, the "Queen of the Sea", was struck by the tsunami near the village of Telwatta as it travelled between Colombo and Galle carrying at least 1,700 passengers, killing all but a handful on board.
A father who saved his family during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has recalled how he "missed death five times on that day". Duncan Ridgley, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, had emigrated ...