I don’t wish ever a disaster of this magnitude on anyone,” one woman said. But the 2004 Asian tsunami also made her realize "there’s more to this world, and it’s about love.”

A 9.1-magnitude earthquake on 26 December 2004 caused a tsunami which hit a dozen countries and killed some 220,000 people. Our colleagues at France 2 take a look back at the unprecedented tragedy and some the lessons learnt.

The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family's house on the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand when her mom, sensing something wasn't right, woke her up saying they needed to leave right away.

Almost 1,000 kilometers off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves—a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is as deadly again.

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries.At the time of the earthquake,

On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake under the Indian Ocean ... The 2004 tsunami killed more than 5,000 people in Thailand, according to official figures, with 3,000 missing.

Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies - One of modern history’s worst natural disasters killed over 228,000 people in 2004

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war, triggered the worst rail accident in history and shattered the lives of millions. Twenty years on, those who escaped certain death share their stories.