This remarkable survival was credited to a local wisdom called smong—their term for tsunamis in the Simeulue language—that ...
I don’t wish ever a disaster of this magnitude on anyone,” one woman said. But the 2004 Asian tsunami also made her realize, ...
Survivors and mourners gathered at mass graves in Indonesia, Thailand and other places along the Indian Ocean that were ...
Twenty years ago today, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake unleashed a tsunami across the Indian Ocean region. Towering waves, some ...
A Russian agency claimed that the plane hit a flock of birds, but aviation experts who examined photos of the damage said ...
Indian Ocean tsunami commemorated its 20th anniversary. Countries such as India, Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka held ...
People are gathering in prayer and visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive ...
Boxing Day, marks the 20th year since one of the world's most significant natural disasters, the Sumatra earthquake.
The earthquake and tsunami claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century.
In Aceh, Indonesia, thousands gathered to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami which took 230,000 lives across multiple countries. Survivors prayed at mass graves, recalling ...