From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ... She didn't know at the time that the tsunami had hit a dozen countries, leaving about 230,000 dead, around ...

On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a huge tsunami with waves up to 30 meters (100 feet) high. Only a rudimentary warning system was in place at the ...

The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family's house on the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand when ... deadly Indian Ocean tsunami struck across South ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... the devastating wave in the country. The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand. Many remain missing and nearly ...

BANGKOK, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Commemorations were held across Thailand along its Andaman coast on Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami. Speaking at a memorial ...

ANDAMAN SEA, Thailand - Almost 1,000km off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves – a key link in a warning system intended to ...

The 2004 tsunami killed more than 5,000 people in Thailand, according to official figures, with 3,000 missing. Now the country's two DART buoys are linked by satellite to a nationwide network of ...

In Thailand, it was Mr Watana ... three-year-olds clambered over him. “The tsunami was a life-changing event for me. “Even though it was a big loss, if you don’t think about that part ...

Boxing Day tsunami, forensic investigator Peter Baines wanted to create good from the enormity of loss. Twenty years on, he has raised $30 million for children orphaned by the disaster.

Waves towering as tall as 30m were unleashed, impacting many countries - with India, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia ... It also caused a series of tsunamis, with the biggest waves hitting Tohoku, a ...