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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ago unharmed ... On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude ...
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 ...
Lizz has not returned to Thailand. Picture ... Tourists trying to escape the tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004. Picture: AFP / STR The devastation was unimaginable. Picture: John Russell ‘You choose ...
Ani Naqvi remembers the Boxing Day tsunami 20 years ago not just as the ... Sri Lankan surfing village of Arugam Bay on 26 December 2004 when one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck ...