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People from the South East who were touched by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami look back 20 years on. ... Lisa May was one of 149 Brits who lost their lives in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami [The Lisa ...
Within hours, the tsunami had claimed nearly 230,000 human lives and displaced millions of people in 12 countries. Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the ...
Channel Islanders share memories of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004. ... killing more than 225,000 people and displacing another 1.7 million.
A massive tsunami with waves up to 30 m (100 ft) high, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami after the Boxing Day holiday, or as the Asian Tsunami, [10] devastated communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries, violently in Aceh , and severely in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu , and Khao Lak ...
Maximum recession of the sea at Kata Noi Beach at 10:25 a.m., prior to the third—and strongest—tsunami wave. The economic impact of the tsunami on Thailand was considerable, though not as great as in poorer countries such as Indonesia or Sri Lanka. Thailand has a liberalised, flexible and robust economy, which has shown powers of rapid ...
Ms Harvey added that the lessons learned from the response to the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami are all the more important now that the number of people forcibly displaced around the world – a ...
The train which was struck by the tsunami. Remains of a house near Telwatte, photographed in March 2008. In Ampara District alone, more than 10,000 people died. A holiday train, the "Queen of the Sea", was struck by the tsunami near the village of Telwatta as it travelled between Colombo and Galle carrying at least 1,700 passengers, killing all but a handful on board.
A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting" – two decades on from one of the deadliest disasters ever recorded.