Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries.

The earthquake that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami took place on December 26, 2004, but the extent of the event and the scale of the devastation took days to comprehend. The quake was the third ...

Show more In 2004 a massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami. The Indonesian city of Banda Aceh, on the island of Sumatra, was closest to the epicentre, and was devastated by ...

Satish BABU/AFP/AFP The deadly tsunami that swamped India's southern coast two decades ... recalling how her daughter was swept away when the 2004 tsunami, triggered by a huge earthquake off ...

On December 26, 2004 ... and India, were killed. Tamil Nadu was also ravaged by the tsunami. In Tamil Nadu, the eastern coastal areas from Chennai to Kanyakumari were mostly affected by the ...

In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed more than 220,000 people across 12 countries. Ali Rogin ...

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

It has been 20 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people and caused widespread destruction across 15 countries. At around 1 am local time on 26 December, a ...