A frame of a homemade video shows tourists caught by the first of six tsunami rolling towards Hat Rai Lay Beach, near Krabi in southern Thailand, following a 9.2-Richter submarine earthquake on ...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia Dec. 26, 2024 3:21 p.m. A relative of a victim of a 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami participates in its 20th anniversary at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of ...
Two decades have passed since a massive tsunami struck the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day. In Sri Lanka, the tsunami claimed over 36,000 lives and displaced more than 500,000 people. This catastrophe, the ...
It's been two decades since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and the deadly disaster has had a lasting influence on disaster awareness. The December 26, 2004, tsunami was caused by a 9.1 magnitude ...
On December 26, 2004, a powerful undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered the deadliest tsunami in recorded history. Within hours, towering waves struck 14 countries, ...
KHAO LAK, Thailand — Watana Sittirachot was raised at an orphanage in Thailand for children affected by the 2004 Asian tsunami. Now, 20 years after the disaster changed the course of his life, he’s ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Sumatra, causing a massive wave that devastated Asian coastal communities across thousands of miles. Some 230,000 people died ...
When a 9.1-magnitude quake caused a tsunami that smashed into coastal areas on December 26, 2004, killing more than 220,000 people, broadcasters, newspapers and wire agencies were the main media ...
"I could not ignore them," Thuleewan “Kimmy” Boonyarattana tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy Thuleewan “Kimmy” Boonyarattana escaped the devastating 2004 ...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of ...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of ...