In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore ...

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...

On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck ...

A tsunami warning system was built after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami catastrophe but can we ever be thoroughly prepared for ...

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war, triggered the worst rail accident in history and shattered the lives of ...

Indonesia and Thailand are marking 20 years since a tsunami caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people in one of the ...

Tearful mourners across Asia have commemorated the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines ...

Across south-east Asia, people marked the 20th anniversary on Boxing Day, gathering in prayer at mass-grave sites, in which ...

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war ... rotation and left almost a quarter of a million people dead. Sumatra, Indonesia. "I saw this huge, black, 40-foot wave coming and instantly ...

Buildings completely destroyed, piles of rubble, boats in places they shouldn't naturally have been, dead bodies everywhere…' ...

December 26 marks 20 years since a major earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people ...

The last I saw of that room was the roof dropping down on us before we were washed out through the rear wall of the building' ...