Journalist Charles Miranda recounts the “harrowing” aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami. Today marks the 20th anniversary since the 9.1 magnitude earthquake killed more than 220,000 civilians ...
AS NATURAL disasters go, the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 was of a scale all its own: an estimated 238,000 people died as coastal towns and villages in the Indian Ocean rim were washed away in an ...
Picture: Gary Ramage After three weeks covering the aftermath in Thailand ... The desolation in Phuket following the Boxing Day tsunami. Picture: Jype Hearps Yai’s story remains one of the ...
GRAPHIC CONTENT: Chief Herald photographer Nick Moir flew into Banda Aceh the day after the Boxing Day tsunami. He found a city turned upside down, bodies lying in the streets – and a sense of ...
Just as Australians had come running to the aid of victims 30 years earlier in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, brought out the best in the world; when confronted with ...
In the aftermath of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, one of the most destructive natural disasters in recorded history, the reconstruction of Banda Aceh was not just about replacing a flattened city ...