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

The huge swell struck the coastline of Peru, Chile, and Ecuador one day after an environmental emergency was declared in the ...

The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that killed around 230,000 people across ... at Marina Beach in the southern city ...

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 ...

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

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

In Thailand, where half of the more than 5,000 dead were ... past the tsunami memorial wall at Ban Nam Khem before watching a fire dance performance. "I am happy to still see people attending ...

He was a young boy playing cricket with friends on a beach around 9:30 in the morning when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — People started gathering in prayer on Thursday and visiting the mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh ...

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 ...