At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day 2004, a major earthquake off the Western Coast of ... The death toll includes those killed as far away as Somalia, where 300 people died. In Kenya, an early tsunami ...
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 ...
Just before 8am, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered what would become known as the Boxing Day tsunami. Considered one of the largest natural disasters in modern history ...