Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...

The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand. Many remain missing and nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to this day. Mourners shed tears and comforted each other as they laid ...

At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day 2004, a major earthquake off the ... was in a voluntary role as vice chairman of the board of trustees in 2004. A clinical psychologist by profession, she flew to ...

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 ...

It was December 28, 2004, and I had been in Thailand less than 12 hours with photographer Michael Perini, sent by News Corp Australia’s Sunday newspapers to cover the Boxing Day tsunami.

Ducan Rigley said after the tsunami he did not ... saved his family during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has recalled how he "missed death five times on that day". Duncan Ridgley, from Welwyn ...

This Boxing ... Day will be quiet for John May as he looks through photographs, remembering his daughter Lisa. After being a bridesmaid at her sister's wedding in Phi Phi in Thailand on 11 ...

Dave explained how he heard there were deaths in Thailand on Boxing Day morning and rang his son but there was no answer. Dave, now 65, said: "I heard about [the tsunami] as we were coming into ...

Tearful mourners across Asia have commemorated the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean. On December 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude ... India and ...