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Twenty years on: 'My boat was metres from the shore when the tsunami hit'
Occurring off the coast of northwest Sumatra under the Indian Ocean, it unleashed a devastating tsunami that killed an estimated 228,000 people across more than a dozen countries and caused massive ...
Every country on the Foreign Office ‘do not travel’ list in January 2025
Here is the current list for January 2025, according to the FCDO website. Algeria: areas within 30km of Algeria’s borders with Libya, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Tunisia. Armenia: areas within 5km of the ...
worldconstructionnetwork16d
Indonesia to enhance construction standards to mitigate earthquake risks
The country’s seismic activity is intensified by the presence of 127 active volcanoes. The major earthquakes in Java and Sumatra in 2006, 2007, and 2009, have led scientists, engineers, and government ...
Daily Express18d
The massive new £2.6bn motorway spanning 3,000km miles across entire island
The Indonesian island of Sumatra is the second largest of the Greater Sunda Islands, In the Malay Archipelago, and the sixth largest Island in the world. Sumatra is known for its rugged tropical ...
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Indonesian president says palm oil expansion won’t deforest because ‘oil palms have leaves’
Oil palm planation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler/Mongabay. While it’s true that oil palm plantations store carbon, they’re ...
Church Times26d
Boxing Day tsunami remembered, 20 years on
A powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on 26 December 2004 triggered ... Malaysia, Somalia, Tanzania, Seychelles, Bangladesh, and Kenya, and left two ...
Charleston Gazette-Mail28d
Prayers and tears mark 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people
The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that killed around 230,000 people across a dozen countries, reaching as far as East ...
Daily Mail29d
Mourners place candles on the beach at Boxing Day tsunami memorial 20 years after deadly giant wave swept Indian Ocean and killed 230,000
A powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on December 26 2004 triggered a tsunami that killed about 230,000 people across a dozen countries, reaching as ...
The Independent29d
Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies
The tsunami was triggered by a powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on 26 December ... South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya.
Daily Mail29d
The day the earth shook: Twenty years on, the videos and images that encapsulate the ferocity and terror of the Boxing Day tsunami
For ten straight minutes, the entire planet shook violently, sending seismic waves across itself that changed the world for the worse. In the wake of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, caused by the ...
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On This Day in 2004: Powerful Indian Ocean Tsunami
The earthquake in question registered a 9.2 on the Richter scale, and was centered just off the southwestern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia ... with 10 deaths reported in Tanzania and 9 deaths in the ...