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

People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the ...

He was a young boy playing cricket with friends on a beach around 9:30 in the morning when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake ...

Triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the catastrophic event was the ...

Mourners across Asia light candles and remember the 220,000 victims of the 2004 tsunami, sharing stories of survival and loss.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tearful mourners prayed as ceremonies were held across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who were ... An aerial view of the beach near the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park in Phang Nga ...