The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that impacted ...
One of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami marks its 20th anniversary on Dec. 26 ...
He was a young boy playing cricket with friends on a beach around 9:30 in the morning when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake ...
It would be four months before her parents Margaret and Bryson received official confirmation of their daughter's death - but ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lillian SUWANRUMPHA/AFP/AFP Tearful mourners prayed and lit candles Thursday at ceremonies across Asia to remember the 220,000 people killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around ...