A woman who survived the Boxing Day tsunami 20 years ago said the disaster has given her an "extraordinary purpose" in life.

The tsunami struck in the wake of a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off Sumatra island on Dec. 26, 2004. Its massive waves traveled thousands of miles, wreaking devastation and killing more than 230,000 ...

Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which ...

A BBC reporter looks back to the day in 2004 when the tsunami hit while she was on the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Buildings completely destroyed, piles of rubble, boats in places they shouldn't naturally have been, dead bodies everywhere…' ...

In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore ...

Tearful mourners across Asia have commemorated the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines ...

We miss them and we still don't know where they are,' said an Indonesian man who lost two of his children in the disaster ...

One of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami marks its 20th anniversary on Dec. 26 ...

Australian Federal Police (AFP) members have gathered this week to honor the victims and families affected by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, which struck 20 years ... including Thailand, Indonesia, Sri ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting" – two decades on ...