A relative of a victim of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami participates in its 20th anniversary at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand ...

On December 26, 2004 ... island nation. In Thailand, where half of the more than 5,000 dead were foreign tourists, unofficial vigils were expected to accompany a government memorial ceremony.

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

The tsunami, which was caused by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake, killed up to 280,000 people across six countries on December 26, 2004. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand had the highest ...

On December 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake -- one of the strongest tremors ever recorded -- unleashed a devastating tsunami that ravaged coastal communities in Thailand, Indonesia ...

Relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candle light ... the disaster have been reconstructed. In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small ...

Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, killing nearly 300,000 people. 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 ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) — The 20-year-old freshman student ... The day is forever seared in Neungduangjai Sritrakarn's memory: Dec. 26, 2004, the day the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami struck across ...