On Boxing Day 2004, a monstrous 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck in the Indian ocean, unleashing widespread devastation in the ...
as it raced toward the shorelines of South and Southeast Asia and East Africa. Earthquake sensors hinted at the potential for destruction and death. But tsunami experts watching that data did not ...
20 years later, one of the Matara train’s carriages sits outside the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing ...
The latest tremor with a magnitude of 4,9 experienced in Kariba and surrounding areas on December 23 has not affected the structural integrity of the Kariba Dam which was built about 61 years ago, the ...
With hundreds of thousands dead, a shortage of body bags and 1.7 million people displaced, the overwhelming devastation caused by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami remains forever imprinted on the minds of ...
Mourners across Asia light candles and remember the 220,000 victims of the 2004 tsunami, sharing stories of survival and loss.
Daniel Poole was travelling in Sri Lanka when he was hit by the tsunami, whilst Rachel Harvey witnessed the devastation in ...
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Today in History for Dec. 26: In 1776, the British suffered a major defeat in the "Battle of Trenton" during the Revolutionary War. In 1791, British legislation creating Upper and Lower Canada (now ...
as it raced toward the shorelines of South and Southeast Asia and East Africa. Earthquake sensors hinted at the potential for destruction and death. But tsunami experts watching that data did not know ...
The last I saw of that room was the roof dropping down on us before we were washed out through the rear wall of the building' ...
The earthquake struck at 12:47 local time (01:47 GMT) on Tuesday and triggered a brief tsunami warning. Vanuatu, a low-lying archipelago of some 80 islands in the South Pacific, is located west of ...