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

Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustained the brunt of the damage. Indonesian officials estimated that ...

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

On December 26, 2004, the devastating Sumatra earthquake and the tsunami that followed caused over 230.000 victims in 14 ...

The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family’s house on the Andaman Sea coast of ...

This week marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the ...

Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without ...

On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, the coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, was filled with thousands of people ...

Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her ...

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

The movement of trillions of tons of rock resulted in the largest, most deadly tsunami on record. Oceanside cities in Sumatra were the first to be hit — a 100-foot-tall rolling mountain of water ...