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 ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook the seafloor off Indonesia, sending a 100-foot wall of water to communities and killing over 220,000 people.

Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday dismissed allegations by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Malviya that ...

She has written a book about her experience of being on the east coast of Sri Lanka when it hit.

We miss them and we still don't know where they are,' said an Indonesian man who lost two of his children in the disaster ...

Luke Simon, 50, survived the devastating 2004 tsunami that destroyed widespread communities and killed more than 227,000 ...

Survivors of the Boxing Day Tsunami and relatives of those who were killed joined memorials in Thailand today on the 20th anniversary of the disaster. Footage shows families laying flowers in Phuket ...

Seven people were injured in New York City on Christmas Day when a taxi jumped a sidewalk and hit pedestrians outside a ...

Revisiting field research in Ampara by Prof. Amarasiri de Silva The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, also known as the Boxing Day ...

The quake created a 1,200-kilometer-long rupture on the seafloor, raising one side of the break by up to 15 meters, which ...

Daniel Poole was travelling in Sri Lanka when he was hit by the tsunami, whilst Rachel Harvey witnessed the devastation in ...

Although her political aspiration was “to lighten the burden on the suffering masses” Sirimavo soon found that the economic ...