295380 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://eminetra.co.uk/2004-boxing-day-tsunami-what-happened-which-country-was-hit-by-the-indian-ocean-earthquake-and-how-many-died/662709/The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people on what was supposed to be a celebration day. The tsunami was one of the worst natural disasters in human history that claimed the lives of thousands. This is what we know. Aerial view of Aceh, Thailand, several hours after the....2021-08-25T00:09+0200eminetra-1b1112211ee3bacb31cac7b61a15141620210825000900https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2021/aug/24/former-mccallie-school-teacher-displaced-week/552844/Steve Bartlett, a former teacher at McCallie School, lost his home and many possessions amid flooding in Middle Tennessee this past weekend. Bartlett, who has lived in Waverly, Tennessee, for 10 years, lost his car in the flooding, along with the majority of his book collection that spanned over 1,000 books.2021-08-24T23:04+0200timesfreepress-c13f6867f1c81fcfc5d77896376f84e620210824230400https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/earthquake-in-bay-of-bengal-due-to-sediment-accumulation-says-expert/article36090288.eceThe earthquake of 5.1 magnitude on the Richter scale that hit the Bay of Bengal around 12:35 p.m., about 296 km south-southeast of Kakinada, was due to differential compaction, as per an expert in earth sciences. Explaining it in simple words, Prof. K.S.2021-08-24T22:49+0200thehindu-58b14599e33e476cb9ffb7dc6370503020210824224900https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6803480/tsunami-2004-boxing-day-what-happened-how-many-died/Foreign tourists look at damage caused by a tsunami in Phuket island, southern of Thailand, 26 December 2004. At least 118 people were killed and 1300 wounded Sunday in southern Thailand Credit: AFP - Getty. Around 30 minutes after the quake, a tsunami struck the northern tip of Indonesia, killing around 130,000 people.2021-08-24T22:46+0200thesun-a7f1e1c5a97d8234f49ed1ee7806c41d20210824224600