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‘We were falling over bodies’: ABC journalist recalls horrors of 2004 Boxing Day tsunami

The first western reporter into severely damaged Indonesian region of Aceh in disaster’s aftermath witnessed the scale of the devastation firsthand• Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe former ABC Indonesia correspondent Tim P…

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‘As well prepared as they could be’: how Taiwan kept death toll low in massive earthquake

The nation’s emergency preparedness policies after a devastating quake in 1999 help to explain relatively small numbers of fatalitiesFor Nina Huang, it was the shaking that jolted her awake. “The first thing I did when I woke up was to hold the cupboar…

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