Commemorating 20 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the deadliest in history, and its enduring legacy.

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP ... seared in Neungduangjai Sritrakarn's memory: Dec. 26, 2004, the day the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami struck across South and Southeast Asia, after a 9.1 magnitude ...

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

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 ...

Survivors and relatives of victims of the Boxing Day Tsunami held memorials in Thailand to mark the disaster’s 20th ...

Survivors and mourners gathered at mass graves in Indonesia, Thailand and other places along the Indian Ocean that were ...

One of modern history's worst natural disasters, the tsunami left about 230,000 dead across a dozen countries.

A woman walks on Bang Niang Beach, where tsunami hit 2004, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) But the haunting memories and ...