Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand. Many remain missing and nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to this day. Mourners shed tears and comforted each other as they laid ...

The wall of water and debris hit coastal resorts in South East Asian countries including Thailand, Indonesia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The Boxing Day Tsunami, as it became known, killed more ...

One Boxing Day morning, a young Australian was scuba diving with her father off Thailand’s coast. Then the sea start to “boil”. But for Lizz Hills, it is a place where she has narrowly ...

At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day 2004, a major earthquake off the Western Coast ... The huge waves caused by the underwater earthquake devastated much of Thailand’s 400km western coastline, while ...

A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ago unharmed, aged eight, because of an elephant said "it makes you grateful for everything that's happened to you".

It was December 28, 2004, and I had been in Thailand less than 12 hours with photographer Michael Perini, sent by News Corp Australia’s Sunday newspapers to cover the Boxing Day tsunami.

Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years ... with inhabitants of the coastlines of Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka suffering the brunt of the devastation.

On Boxing Day in 2004, a young Australian was having the time of her life on a dream Thailand holiday. Then, the unthinkable happened. But for Lizz Hills, it is a place where she has narrowly ...