Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has delivered a moving tribute while marking 20 years since the horrific Boxing Day tsunami – which killed thousands and devastated Australia’s island neighbour.
For 20 years, survivors have lived with the weight of loss and the pain of memories, that one terrible day looming so large ...
Time fades the memory of distant disasters but many Australians well into adulthood will remember first hearing of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. In an age when news did not arrive instantly by phones, ...
As we honor those lost, we are also humbled to reflect on the progress made in creating resilient coastal communities. That ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Sumatra, causing a massive wave that devastated ...
In minutes, the calm of a Boxing Day morning was ripped apart, the couple and their baby daughter swept away when their house collapsed as a black wall of seawater barreled through the city of Banda ...
Twenty years ago, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 struck off the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia, sending tremors as far as Penang, ...
Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...
Some people were faced with 50-metre-high waves, and the tsunami reached all the way from Indonesia to Australia to Africa.
Blogs to Bluesky: social media shifts responses after 2004 tsunami The world's deadliest tsunami hit nations around the Indian Ocean two decades ago before social media platforms flourished, but they ...