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That said, scientists warned for decades a tsunami could jet our way at more than 500 mph. It's happened before. Few were around in 1755, though, to document the destruction. But if — some ...

The sea started boiling. Khao Lak beach the day before the tsunami. Picture: Supplied “It was the day after Christmas and we were excited to go scuba diving,” she said. “We had been at a ...

Before the tsunami, more than 15,000 people, including civilians, had died from the fighting between Indonesia and separatists from the Free Aceh Movement, or Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM), since 1976.

A man caught up in a devastating tsunami 20 years ago has recalled the final moments before his older brother was swept away by the water. Luke Simon, from Somerset, was celebrating Christmas with his ...

Luke Simon, who survived the devastated 2004 Boxing Day tsunami which killed his brother, has shared the haunting two words ...

In the years since 2004, infrastructure in Aceh has been rebuilt and is now more resilient than before the tsunami struck. Early warning systems have been installed in coastal areas to alert ...

Picture: ADH/Stefan Trappe The tsunami as it unfolded across the world ... institutions in a way that they had never been connected before,” the report stated. UNICEF’s Roberto Benes, was ...