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 ...
Survivors and mourners gathered at mass graves in Indonesia, Thailand and other places along the Indian Ocean that were ...
I don’t wish ever a disaster of this magnitude on anyone,” one woman said. But the 2004 Asian tsunami also made her realize ...
The tsunami that rose from this great shifting of tectonic plates reached over 115 feet in some places and ultimately killed ...
On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, the coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, was filled with thousands of people ...
Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustained the brunt of the damage. Indonesian officials estimated that ...
In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore ...
Yesterday, communities along Thailand’s Andaman coast held ceremonies to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 2004 tsunami ...
Understanding of the Sumatran subduction zone and its hazards has increased since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...
Along Thailand’s Andaman coast ... A view she said wouldn’t be there if not for the tsunami that destroyed parts of the coast. In Phang Nga, life has been rebuilt and the tourists are back ...
Two decades on from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami that struck a dozen countries and wreaked havoc across Southeast Asia, ...