Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...

But now, 1,400 stations globally cut warning times to just minutes after a tsunami wave forms. Experts said the lack of a properly coordinated warning system in 2004 had made the disaster's impact ...

On Boxing Day 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that raced towards shorelines ... trip around the world when the towering waves struck. About 228,000 people were killed and ...

Hear powerful survivor stories from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. It’s been 20 years since one of history’s deadliest natural disasters. Discover how tragedy defined a generation.

Tsunami 2004: The Day the Wave Hit 20 years on, this minute-by-minute account reveals how the most destructive tsunami in modern times unfolded, featuring powerful eyewitness testimonies of ...

As an eight-year-old boy Pirun Kla-Talay was orphaned by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Now he makes his living ... "As an island boy, I knew the sound of waves," he said.

On Dec 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a huge tsunami with waves up to 30m high. Only a rudimentary warning system was in place at the time, with no way to ...

Presents a minute-by-minute account of the most destructive tsunami in modern times ... present in Thailand and Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004.