Boxing Day tsunami: here’s what we have learned in the 20 years since the deadliest natural disaster in modern history
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...
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What we have learned in the 20 years since Boxing Day tsunami
Tsunami and earthquake data still isn’t shared widely around the world. Local authorities and experts often don’t communicate ...
20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami: How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived
How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived - Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal ...
Boxing Day tsunami: Forensic investigator reflects on disaster 20 years on
As a highly-skilled forensic investigation expert, Peter Baines has encountered more death than anyone could ever fathom. After the devastating Bali bombings back in 2002, he was sent over to the ...
It was white water and chaos - tsunami survivor
A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting" – two decades on ...
Is Florida ready for a tsunami?
Tsunamis are a hot topic in popular culture, lately. But is Florida ready for what some experts have warned for decades is ...
After the Boxing Day tsunami, we built a warning system. It may not be enough
When the earthquake struck, the world rattled; a 10-millimetre shudder on a planetary scale. Earth wobbled on its axis and ...
Remembering the Boxing Day tsunami
This Boxing Day marks the 20th anniversary of the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disaste ...
Boxing Day tsunami, 20 years on: the miraculous triumph of human endurance
This is how a community rebuilds after a catastrophe – slowly, painfully and from the tsunami-­sodden ground up.
Twenty years on: 'My boat was metres from the shore when the tsunami hit'
Boxing Day, 2004. When the earthquake struck at 06:30 (01:00 GMT), I was on a ferry, headed towards Havelock – an island in ...
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After the Boxing Day tsunami, we built a warning system. It may not be enough
from earthquakes originating in the Sunda trench that produced the Boxing Day tsunami. (WA avoided damage and deaths in 2004, but 30 swimmers had to be rescued from chaotic tides.) Australia’s ...