Survivors and mourners in recited Islamic prayers, commemorating the deaths of tens of thousands killed when a tsunami ...
Experts said the Boxing Day catastrophe in 2004 was a “huge wakeup call” that accelerated research, education and technology to better understand natural disasters and try to mitigate their impact.
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit Agusan del Sur on Thursday evening, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and ...
One of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami marks its 20th anniversary on Dec. 26 ...
On December 26, 2004, a powerful earthquake off the coast of Aceh in Indonesia triggered a series of waves that inundated coastal communities and killed 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history. According to United Nations estimates, more than 220,000 people were killed, and ...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Mindanao, in the Philippines on Thursday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre ...
Along Tamil Nadu’s coastline and Sri Lanka's, affected local populations remembered those lost to the South Asian tsunami of ...
Twenty years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that claimed over 230,000 lives across the Indian Ocean region, ...
A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting" – two decades on ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, an earthquake-triggered tsunami raced across the Indian Ocean with 40-foot-high waves slamming into India, ...