The huge waves travelled around the Indian Ocean, hitting Sri Lanka, India ... after a tsunami wave forms. Experts said the lack of a properly coordinated warning system in 2004 had made the ...

The huge waves travelled around the Indian Ocean, hitting Sri Lanka, India ... after a tsunami wave forms. Experts said the lack of a properly coordinated warning system in 2004 had made the ...

December 26, 2004 [AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe] The Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the greatest ... The death toll in Sri Lanka was 35,262 and 16,389 in India. Another 8,240 people were killed ...

Three weeks after the tsunami, and 20 years ago this week, WISH-TV sent Eric Halvorson and Kevin Conners to witness for our viewers how far their donated dollars would go in such a crisis.

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

The resulting tsunami struck nations in the Indian Ocean including Thailand and Sri ... It was the unprecedented disaster of Dec. 26, 2004, that brought a peaceful end to three decades of war.

In the aftermath of the 2004 disaster, the global community acted with unprecedented urgency to establish systems that could prevent similar tragedies. The Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and ...

World Tsunami Awareness Day (November 5) presented a moment of reflection 20 years on from catastrophic Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 that resulted ... did - coasts of India, Sri Lanka, and ...