The wave ripped him from his mother sow ... Part of the problem was that there was no tsunami warning center in the Indian Ocean. And the series follows a group of scientists who realize that ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...

At the time of the earthquake, there was no warning system in place in the Indian Ocean. But now, 1,400 stations globally cut warning times to just minutes after a tsunami wave forms. Experts said ...

Survivors and families of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia in ceremonies on Thursday to ...

A woman sprinkles water on a stone marking a mass grave of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ... of the devastating wave in the country. Relatives of a victim of the tsunami hug each ...

The resulting tsunami struck nations in the Indian Ocean including Thailand and Sri Lanka and reached as far as Africa, killing an estimated 220,000-plus people, including about 40 Japanese.

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet high, killing an estimated 230,000 people. Twenty years later, people gathered ...

Two major tsunami that swamped the east coast have been labelled a "missed opportunities", so what do we need to change to be ...

Some tsunami scenarios are way worse than the waves from the earthquake off Lisbon ... Tsunami killed some 230,000 people around the Indian Ocean, tsunamis have again been in the news recently ...

As an eight-year-old boy Pirun Kla-Talay was orphaned by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 ... "As an island boy, I knew the sound of waves," he said. "But that wasn't normal." ...

Relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candle ... that bore the brunt of the devastating wave in the country. The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand ...