At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day 2004, a major earthquake off the Western Coast ... Twenty years on, it remains the biggest natural disaster seen this century. More than 230,000 people were killed, ...

Occurring even closer to land, large settlements and a nuclear power plant, this tsunami caused more economic damage than the Boxing Day disaster. But in terms of lives lost, over thousands of ...

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the ...

In the aftermath of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka and many other countries on Boxing Day 2004, I was the least likely candidate to volunteer my help.

Thousands of overseas tourists were killed in the disaster, including 26 Australians ... on the news from the comfort of his home on Boxing Day, Mr Baines knew it would not be long before he ...

Ani Naqvi (left) was visiting the coastal town of Arugam Bay when the tsunami struck Ani Naqvi remembers the Boxing Day tsunami 20 ... one of the worst natural disasters in a century around ...

It's late December 2004 and the survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami, one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history are finally arriving home. Jonnie and his brother Gerard landed back in ...

Tsunami-hit nations will next week commemorate the more than 220,000 people who died in the Boxing Day disaster two decades ago, when huge waves tore into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean.

Twenty years after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami caused unimaginable ... in the shadow of one of the worst natural disasters in human history. To this day, remnants of the tragedy lie in coastal ...