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After being a bridesmaid at her sister's wedding in Phi Phi in Thailand on 11 December 2004, the 25-year-old had ... their own lucky escape from the tsunami. The couple were on holiday with ...
The giant waves that engulfed the impoverished province on the northern tip of Sumatra island on December 26, 2004, killing tens ... was born because of the tsunami. At the time, foreign countries ...
Natural disasters can strike with little to no warning, as demonstrated by recent seismic events like the 6.9-magnitude earthquake near Papua New Guinea, which prompted tsunami warnings. This article ...
In December 2004, she had been with the organisation for two months ... because of the scale of the destruction and how wide the tsunami was,” she recalls. The UN and partner organisations including ...
But setting up a truly effective warning system, one that can alert coastlines even as close to a tsunami's birthplace as northwest Sumatra was last December ... Sadly, the 2004 tsunami showed ...
(CNN) -- Despite its devastating toll of human misery, the December 2004 tsunami had relatively little impact on the broad picture of Asian regional economic growth in 2005. Excluding Japan ...
Prasanna, a victim of the December 2004 tsunami that swept through thousands of homes in Sri Lanka, said: “It was as bad as the tsunami.” Ajit Prasanna and son. Soon after Prasanna’s family and others ...
Presents a minute-by-minute account of the most destructive tsunami in modern times ... present in Thailand and Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004.
Taking off from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of Operation Unified Assistance, Seahawks respond to the tsunami that hit Indonesia in December 2004. The earthquake made the whole ...
Tsunamis have hit Washington and the Puget Sound region in the past, and they will happen again in the future.