4712 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://www.dailynews.lk/2023/12/26/admin-catagories/breaking-news/314645/multi-religious-ceremonies-to-remember-lives-lost-in-boxing-day-tsunami/Sri Lanka will mark the National Safety Day today (26) and will remember the thousands of people who lost their lives to the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami that swept the island in 2004 killing over 35,000 people. The country will also mark the occasion with a nationwide two minute silence from 9:25 am to 9:27 am.2023-12-25T21:03+0100dailynews-lk-2a5f41d93a026e1dd59136a9f87dffe420231225210300https://www.dailynews.lk/2023/12/26/editorial/314057/boxing-day-tsunami-19-years-on/Nineteen years ago on this day, massive tidal waves battered the coast of Sri Lanka and 13 other countries in the Indian Ocean and Africa, killing over 240,000 people and rendering 1.7 million homeless. For a population that did not even know the word ‘tsunami’ before 2004, we are now very much aware of the dangers posed by these massive waves.2023-12-25T20:43+0100dailynews-lk-ee424c2e529879a8758c45cfd911e3ad20231225204300https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8753731/mag3quake-Dec-25-2023-Halmahera-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Tobelo, a town with 10,000 inhabitants in , in 120 km (75 mi) distance south of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking shaking there. The following table shows some of the places that might have been affected by the shaking.2023-12-25T13:59+0100volcanodiscovery-c43d2c37c894484e25ba84a26d377e6320231225135900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8753436/mag4quake-Dec-25-2023-Sumba-Region-Indonesia.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Tambolaka, a town with 35,800 inhabitants in , in 9.6 km (5.9 mi) distance southeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced light shaking shaking there. The following table shows some of the places that might have been affected by the shaking.2023-12-25T09:44+0100volcanodiscovery-3ab583abb6a784eb844746c9cd7fac3b20231225094400