People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean ... Africa. Waves towering up to 100 feet high swept ...

The resulting tsunami unleashed waves more than 100 feet high and as ... Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern ...

It created waves more than 30 meters (100 feet) high, releasing energy ... impact of a catastrophic tsunami can never be completely prevented. Citation: 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: what to know ...

In 2004, an earthquake-triggered tsunami raced across the Indian Ocean with 40-foot-high waves slamming into India, Thailand, Indonesia and several other countries, killing at least 225,000 people ...

triggering the tsunami. Violent, deadly waves nearly 100ft high radiated outward from the epicentre. At its fastest, in the deep waters of the Indian Ocean, it travelled up to 620mph.

The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on ... The lack of tsunami early warning systems in the Indian Ocean before the 2004 tsunami had made the ...

It created waves more than 30 metres (100 feet) high ... systems - The tsunami also forced a reckoning about the preparedness of coastal communities around the Indian Ocean basin.

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ... Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered huge waves that swept into ...