Japan. On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was ...

Twenty years after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami caused unimaginable devastation ... an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.

Japan. Right: The lifesaving evacuation route to the top of the hill behind Jike. Tomoya Shibayama The role of engineering defences In the years since the Boxing Day tsunami, countries at risk ...

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near ... Similarly, when an earthquake hit Noto, Japan, in January 2024, swiftly issued tsunami warnings and evacuation orders undoubtedly saved ...