It would be four months before her parents Margaret and Bryson received official confirmation of their daughter's death - but ...

One of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami marks its 20th anniversary on Dec. 26 ...

The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that impacted ...

Twenty years ago, the world was stunned by the Asian tsunami, whose towering ... but when they walked up to the beach, it was littered with debris. Dead fish were littered all the way up to ...

Khao Lak was the worst-hit area in Thailand. Many of the dead were tourists enjoying a pristine stretch of beach with azure ...

Sharon Howard has returned to Thailand to mark the 20th anniversary of losing her six-year-old son Taylor, his eight-year-old ...

People gathered ... at Marina beach in the southern city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu state. They poured milk into the sea to propitiate gods and offered flowers and prayers for the dead as drums ...

Weekend mornings at Akkaraipettai beach, marked by cricket and volleyball, belie a tragic past. The ground is a mass burial ...

The resulting tsunami unleashed waves more than ... with more than 170,000 people killed. In Thailand, beach resort tourists comprised about half of the nation’s death toll of 5,000, while ...