Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...

The brunt of the tsunami was felt in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where 170,000 people perished. Sri Lanka, India and ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she ...

The majority of deaths from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were in Indonesia. But the island of Simeulue was largely spared.

Four decades later, in 2004, the Pacific center was still the only basinwide tsunami monitoring system in the world. By then, the center had, in addition to the seismic and tide data, a handful of ...

Former rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia's army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a ...

A powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on December 26 2004 triggered a tsunami that killed ... lost to the giant waves that flattened buildings ...

The world's deadliest tsunami hit nations around the Indian Ocean two decades ago before social media platforms flourished, ...

Ayuni survived the tsunami by chance, staying at her aunt’s house in Banda Aceh instead of her family home in Lampuuk, Aceh ...

The giant waves that engulfed the impoverished province on the northern tip of Sumatra island on December 26, 2004, killing tens ... was born because of the tsunami. At the time, foreign countries ...

When giant waves crashed into ... Laura Kong of the Honolulu-based International Tsunami Information Center recently recalls how "2004 was such a tragedy". "Because... we might have known there ...

LHOKNGA, Indonesia — Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami ... born after 2004. They have only heard the story about the quake followed by three giant waves and ...