Twenty years ago, the world was stunned by the Asian tsunami, whose towering waves killed ... an island group between Phuket and the Straits of Malacca. On the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, they ...

On April 6, 2024, a user on X named Creepy.org (@creepydotorg) posted a story about a 10-year-old English girl, Tilly Smith, who reportedly was credited with saving the lives of hundreds of people ...

In Phuket, Thailand ... to receive a timely warning to evacuate a giant, dangerous wave. But as a Dec. 5 earthquake and (tiny) tsunami off Northern California showed, we can’t rely on just ...

The Asian tsunami on 26 December 2004 claimed the lives of ... was due to catch a 10am boat off the island of Racha Yai, south of Phuket, Thailand, when the giant wave swept in. The inquest heard Miss ...

“So we started to run from the wave. The water was ... husband Daniel at work after the tsunami. Mandelle Bernstein, her husband and children landed in Phuket, an island in Thailand, on December ...

In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore the brunt of the devastating wave in the country. The tsunami claimed ...

Deputy Phuket governor Adul Chuthong urged everyone to help maintain the tsunami warning system and ... was washed about 1 kilometre off to sea by the huge wave.

She was trying to save him as the wave – taller than the coconut ... they came back to the temple,” says Arton. Before the tsunami, Naiyang Beach in Phuket was home to fishermen’s huts ...

As the sun crested the horizon early on Boxing Day 2004, no-one on Thailand's west coast expected their life would be engulfed by chaos only a few hours later. At 7:59am local time, a magnitude-9. ...