On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, the coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, was filled with thousands of people ...
Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustained the brunt of the damage. Indonesian officials estimated that ...
The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family’s house on the Andaman Sea coast of ...
When the destruction of the Boxing Day tsunami swept across 14 countries killing more than 227,000 people, it prompted an ...
Grim-faced rescuers were tying ropes to the stiff, jutting legs and arms of bloated corpses floating in the Andaman Sea, and bringing them to shore after an earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered ...
I don’t wish ever a disaster of this magnitude on anyone,” one woman said. But the 2004 Asian tsunami also made her realize ...
Understanding of the Sumatran subduction zone and its hazards has increased since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...
Singapore agencies involved in relief efforts also reflected on the challenges they faced and lessons they learnt from their relief efforts following the disaster.
Yesterday, communities along Thailand’s Andaman coast held ceremonies to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 2004 tsunami ...
JAKARTA: Herman Wiharta began that Sunday morning like many 11-year-olds would on a weekend: watching cartoon shows on TV.
Survivors and mourners gathered at mass graves in Indonesia, Thailand and other places along the Indian Ocean that were ...
Twenty years ago today, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake unleashed a tsunami across the Indian Ocean region. Towering waves, some ...