Encouraging the active participation of residents is essential to preserving disaster memory, maintaining memorials and ...

Walking from Pullman Khao Lak to Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park is more than a physical journey. It’s a reflective experience that allows you to connect with history in a meditative, deeply ...

The deadliest tsunami to hit Hawaii in modern history was on April 1, 1946, when a magnitude 8.6 earthquake in the Aleutian ...

Infrastructure in Aceh has been rebuilt and is now more resilient than before the tsunami struck. Early warning systems have ...

At one particularly large site in Thailand's southern fishing town of Ban Nam Khem, a large illuminated sign read '20 Tsunami ...

A powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on December 26 2004 triggered a tsunami ...

Memory canonization is evident in the creation of disaster monuments and commemoration events, including in Aceh.

In Indonesia’s Aceh province, a siren rang out at the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque to kick off a series of memorials around the ...

In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore ...

Along Tamil Nadu’s coastline and Sri Lanka's, affected local populations remembered those lost to the South Asian tsunami of ...

People in provinces along Thailand’s Andaman coast held remembrance events on Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of the ...

The 9.1 magnitude earthquake induced Tsunami was first felt in the island’s eastern coast before moving south resulting in ...