Today, Phuket boasts enhanced tsunami defences, including 13 warning towers along its west coast and a buoy detection system offering up to 2.5 hours’ warning. Regular evacuation drills and community ...

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war ... 11,000 in India, 5,000 in Thailand. Peraliya, Sri Lanka. Now, 20 years on, the ABC has returned to some of the hardest-hit communities to ...

Amber Mason said once Ningnong the elephant realised there was something wrong he "started pulling away" [Amber Owen] A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ...

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Chief Herald photographer Nick Moir flew into Banda Aceh the day after the Boxing Day tsunami ... Tamara Dean and Andrew Taylor went to Thailand. It was a pretty big deal ...

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.

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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". On 26 ...

On Boxing Day in 2004, a young Australian was having ... The tourist area of Patong, Thailand, after the tsunami. Picture: Supplied ‘The sea started boiling’ As they climbed back on board ...

The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand. Many remain missing and nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to ...