Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

open image in gallery India women offer tributes in memory of the victims of the 2004 tsunami ... people in Thailand. Many remain missing and nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to this day.

The Boxing Day ... The tsunami carried the energy equivalent of 23,000 atomic bombs. There were 170,000 people dead in Indonesia, 30,000 in Sri Lanka, 11,000 in India, 5,000 in Thailand.

A woman who survived the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ago after being led to safety on the back of an elephant said it made her “grateful for everything". On 26 December 2004 ...

THE 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami is one of the deadliest natural ... At around 2.30am, the colossal waves hit Thailand, claiming thousands of lives. Khao Lak, where Sharon Howard’s family were ...

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 ...

This year, Boxing ... day in 2004. “There’s a saying in Thai that says, ‘the sky after the rain is always clear’,” he said, as a group of three-year-olds clambered over him. “The ...

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 ...

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 ...