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People from the South East who were touched by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami look back 20 years on. ... He had gone to bars on Christmas Day and was due to go scuba diving the following morning.
On Christmas 20 years ago, ... December 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, also known as the Boxing Day tsunami. EFE/EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT / NARONG SANGNAK ATTENTION.
While researchers say a tsunami like the one after Christmas Day in 2004, is unlikely here, they also say a smaller, yet still devastating tsunami could some day slam the Sunshine State, ...
A woman who got engaged on Christmas Day in 2004, saw her world fall apart less than 24 hours later as her new fiance and two young sons were swept away in the Boxing Day Tsunami. Twenty years on ...
TSUNAMI survivor Sharon Howard sobs as she lays flowers at the Thailand hotel where she last saw her fiance and two sons 20 years ago to the day. While families around the country gather for Christ… ...
A British man has recalled fears the world was ending as the Boxing Day tsunami devastated his home in Thailand 20 years ago. John Metcalfe had only been living there for two-and-a-half years. The ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, an earthquake-triggered tsunami raced across the Indian Ocean with 40-foot-high waves slamming into India, Thailand, Indonesia and several other countries, killing at least ...
Luke Simon, from Somerset, was celebrating Christmas with his brother Piers and their friends in Thailand's Koh Phi Phi resort when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit on Boxing Day in 2004.
As she touched down in Phuket on Christmas Eve back in 2004, she recalls feeling mixed emotions. The last time she had been in the country was earlier that year, ... Boxing Day tsunami .
In the wee hours of December 26, 2004, a massive 9.2 earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, generating an equally massive tsunami that caused unprecedented devastation to 14 countries and killed ...