20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami: How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived - Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal regions around Asia, Tamara ...

In the years since the Boxing Day tsunami, countries at risk have invested in “hard” engineering defences including seawalls, offshore breakwaters and flood levees.

SRI LANKA, — This December marks the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck ...

Damage caused by the wave in Thailand. Photo/ Bob Hooker This Boxing Day marks the 20th anniversary of the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history.

The Tohoku tsunami of 2011 in eastern Japan. Occurring even closer to land, large settlements and a nuclear power plant, this tsunami caused more economic damage than the Boxing Day disaster.

Twenty years on, the Boxing Day tsunami is being remembered for the extraordinary devastation it unleashed, the incredible generosity it prompted, and the unexpected ways in which it changed the ...

Boxing Day tsunami, 20 years on: the miraculous triumph of human endurance In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami, one of the most destructive natural disasters in recorded history, reconstructing ...

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 ...