Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, an earthquake-triggered tsunami raced across the Indian Ocean with 40-foot-high waves slamming into India, ...
Tearful mourners prayed and lit candles Thursday at ceremonies across Asia to remember the 220,000 people killed two decades ...
20 years later, one of the Matara train’s carriages sits outside the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing ...
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 ...
The last I saw of that room was the roof dropping down on us before we were washed out through the rear wall of the building' ...
Mourners across Asia light candles and remember the 220,000 victims of the 2004 tsunami, sharing stories of survival and loss.
On Boxing Day 2004, a monstrous 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck in the Indian ocean, unleashing widespread devastation in the ...
Flowers are left at a mass grave for tsunami victims ... waves even hit the east coast of Africa, with the furthest death from the epicenter recorded in the South African town of Rooi-Els ...
In 2004, an earthquake-triggered tsunami raced across the Indian Ocean ... and human rights activist who helped end apartheid in South Africa, died in Cape Town. He was 90. Two people are dead ...
Deaths from the tsunami were also recorded in Somalia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Maldives, South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya.