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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day 2004, a major earthquake off the Western Coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a series of deadly tsunamis in the Indian Ocean that would go on to kill and injure ...

26 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. 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 ...

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 ...

26, 2024 3:21 p.m. A relative of a victim of a 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami participates ... brunt of the devastating wave in the country. Relatives of a victim of the tsunami hug each other during ...

26th December, 2004 – A colossal earthquake triggers a massive tsunami that surges across the Indian Ocean, killing hundreds ... they reflect on the waves of change that have shaped their ...

MORE The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami was a watershed moment in disaster ... the UNESCO Tsunami Ready initiative and the yearly CARIBE WAVE exercises have improved local readiness.