With hundreds of thousands dead, a shortage of body bags and 1.7 million people displaced, the overwhelming devastation caused by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami remains forever imprinted on the minds of ...

Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without tsunami deaths is a challenge. By Katrina Miller The Indian Ocean tsunami ...

A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami, according to EM-DAT ... the lack of a properly coordinated warning system in 2004 had made the disaster's impact worse.

A father who saved his family during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has recalled how he "missed death five times on that day". Duncan Ridgley, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, had emigrated ...

The death toll was catastrophic ... Sumatra island after a massive undersea earthquake triggered a tsunami December 26, 2004. An aerial view of the Tsunami- stricken coastal region is seen ...

In addition to 227,899 deaths, the disaster displaced 1. ... systems and other infrastructure to make them more tsunami-resistant. The 2004 earthquake itself was bad enough: At magnitude 9.1 ...

When he arrived on the island, he said he saw ‘nothing but debris and death ... the tsunami have been largely cleaned up and repaired. But the nightmarish memory of Boxing Day 2004 ...

Ducan Rigley said after the tsunami he did not want to return to Sri Lanka [Duncan Ridgley] A father who saved his family during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has recalled how he "missed death ...