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 ...
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, ...
Aceh Police uncovered a case of human trafficking against migrant workers. The victim was tricked into joining a love ...
More than 200 Singapore police officers are trained to identify the deceased in the aftermath of mass casualty events, like ...
Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...
Indonesia is developing a new offshore tsunami early warning system using GPS to monitor sea level changes. The country's National Disaster Mitigation Agency or BNPB says the dynamic system could be ...
Some people were faced with 50-metre-high waves, and the tsunami reached all the way from Indonesia to Australia to Africa.