Commemorating 20 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the deadliest in history, and its enduring legacy.

(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) Young girls use their mobile phones as they visit Lampuuk beach, one of the areas hardest hit by Indian Ocean ... a tsunami that killed around 230,000 people across ...

The 2004 tsunami was not simply a natural disaster but a graphic exposure of the failure of the capitalist system, the ruling ...

This week marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the ...

Understanding of the Sumatran subduction zone and its hazards has increased since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...

I don’t wish ever a disaster of this magnitude on anyone,” one woman said. But the 2004 Asian tsunami also made her realize ...

Survivors and mourners gathered at mass graves in Indonesia, Thailand and other places along the Indian Ocean that were ...

Twenty years ago today, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake unleashed a tsunami across the Indian Ocean region. Towering waves, some ...

Within hours, the tsunami had claimed nearly 230,000 human lives and displaced millions of people in 12 countries. Thursday ...

Memory canonization is evident in the creation of disaster monuments and commemoration events, including in Aceh.

NBC Universal, Inc. People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 ...