The Asian tsunami that crashed into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, is this century’s deadliest ...

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

Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...

She didn't know at the time that the tsunami had hit a dozen countries ... Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. Along Thailand’s Andaman coast, at least 5,400 people were killed and some 3,000 ...

The couple were on holiday with family on Vilamendhoo island in the Maldives, where they noticed the usually still water ...

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

Survivors and families of victims visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia ...

The brunt of the tsunami was felt in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where 170,000 people perished. Sri Lanka, India and ...

Tourists look at Police Boat T813 that was swept inland at Tsunami Memorial Khao Lak, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand ... “There were bodies everywhere,” she said.

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People place roses at Ban Nam Khem tsunami memorial wall in Thailand in 2014. She and her team were tasked with burying bodies to preserve them, then digging them up to try to identify them and ...