GRAPHIC CONTENT: Chief Herald photographer Nick Moir flew into Banda Aceh the day after the Boxing Day tsunami ... look at the horizon when I am at the beach, and I check for high ground without ...

Catapult? Most people in Australia say “ging” or “shanghai”. In the United States, it’s a slingshot. Sri Lanka’s British ...

26, to mark two decades since the world’s largest tsunami. On Dec. 26, 2004, in one of the worst natural disasters of the modern era, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake spurred catastrophic waves that ...

COLOMBO: Twenty years after the massive Indian Ocean tsunami wreaked havoc on Sri Lanka, some survivors are still trying to pick up the pieces. Those living in poorly-constructed settlements ...

People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of modern ... In India, ...

A relative of a tsunami victim cries at Tsunami Memorial Park on Thursday. In India, hundreds gathered at Marina Beach in the southern city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu state. They poured milk into ...

It generated a local tsunami with waves of up to 50 feet and killed an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people. While many people reached higher ground, some returned to the town before the second of ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries.

Twenty years on from the Boxing Day tsunami, a Red Cross director has remembered ... many of them in the beach resorts of Thailand and Sri Lanka. Over the following days, Dr Gunasekara and ...

12/26/2024 December 26, 2024 People in southeast Asia are marking 20 years since a massive tsunami swept ashore. Banda Aceh, a region on one of Indonesia's main islands, was hit particularly hard ...

ACEH PROVINCE - Tearful mourners prayed and lit candles Thursday at ceremonies across Asia to remember the 220,000 people killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian ...