The brunt of the tsunami was felt in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where 170,000 people perished. Sri Lanka, India and ...
Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...
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 ...
Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, ...
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 ...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she ...
On Boxing Day in 2004, a powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra triggered the giant wave that killed ... of the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, one of modern history's worst ...
Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...
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 ...