Along Thailand’s Andaman coast ... who was home from her studies in Bangkok for the New Year break when the tsunami hit, said her immediate family survived but they lost five relatives ...

Along Thailand’s Andaman coast ... who was home from her studies in Bangkok for the New Year break when the tsunami hit, said her immediate family survived but they lost five relatives ...

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 ...

She didn't know at the time that the tsunami had hit a dozen countries, leaving about 230,000 dead, around a third of them in Indonesia. Some 1.7 million people were displaced, mostly in the four ...