People play in the water at Ulee Lheue beach which was one of the areas hardest hit by Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, in Banda Aceh, Aceh Province, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo ...

# To live daily in perpetual fear of the deadly consequences of something that may or may not happen and, anyway, may not affect one individually, is impossible if people are to remain sufficiently ...

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

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

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 ...

The tsunami science world was small and mostly under the radar of mainstream media. There was plenty of interesting work ...

Twenty years ago, on Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to ...

This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anita Baca, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide made or ...

Journalist Charles Miranda recounts the devastating scenes from the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami. Thursday marked the ...

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

Just inland from the crashing waves on Sri Lanka's palm-fringed shores, the train slowly came to a stop on Thursday -- ...