2004, tsunami. The tsunami -- generated by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western island of Sumatra -- carried in its path a wall of debris including boats, cars, and bodies.

Some 800 people were injured and hundreds of homes and other buildings were "heavily damaged" in the tsunami which struck late on Saturday. On Dec. 26 in 2004, an Indian Ocean tsunami triggered by ...

Millions across the country bowed their heads and prayed at 2.46pm, the exact time the magnitude-9 earthquake struck off the northeast, unleashing a huge tsunami that bludgeoned the coast and ...

While Ecuador and Chile did ring tsunami alerts, no such measure was enacted in Peru, leading to additional damage. Waves more than two meters high flooded the city and dragged into the sea a ...

About 18,000 people were listed as dead or missing ... It was the worst tsunami disaster in history. The clearing-up process in Galle, southern Sri Lanka, in 2004 The Boxing Day earthquake struck ...

The dreadful disaster The tsunami that hit vast coastal regions of the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, is considered the deadliest natural ... leaving at least 170,000 people dead and damage estimated ...

OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--As the massive tsunami surged over a 6.4-meter seawall, it swallowed the town below. Along the railway embankment, people scrambled for their lives. The harrowing scene ...

“We found lots of other dead bodies in the park ... as fishermen were scared to go back into the sea,” he added. The 2004 tsunami changed everything, including the landscape of Yala.

The mass burial plans were revealed as the number of those feared dead in the region reached at least 180, with officials warning it would rise further. Following the tsunami spawned by a massive, 8.0 ...

Taking off from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of Operation Unified Assistance, Seahawks respond to the tsunami that hit Indonesia in December 2004 ... scores of dead bodies (both ...

Some officials expressed relief that the death toll was not higher, drawing uneasy comparisons to a magnitude 8.8 earthquake in 2010 that left 525 people dead, 81 of them after a tsunami struck ...