Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without ...
20 years later, one of the Matara train’s carriages sits outside the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing ...
Survivors and families of victims visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia ...
With hundreds of thousands dead, a shortage of body bags and 1.7 million people displaced, the overwhelming devastation caused by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami remains forever imprinted on the minds of ...
Tearful mourners prayed and lit candles Thursday at ceremonies across Asia to remember the 220,000 people killed two decades ...
Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...
As the region remembers the catastrophic event, experts say improved early warning systems and disaster preparedness that can ...
The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that impacted a dozen countries, reaching as far as East Africa. NBC Universal ...
Understanding of the Sumatran subduction zone and its hazards has increased since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...