Through collaborations with communities, Mercy Corps is supporting locally led disaster preparedness in the wake of the 2004 ...

EDITORIAL: Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal communities across 14 countries and killed over 230,000 people, we must not only commemorate the lives lost but also critically ...

December 26 marked 20 years since a massive tsunami swept across the Indian ... tidal waves at Patong beach in Phuket, Thailand, Sunday December 26, 2004. [AP Photo/Karim Khamzin] In a WSWS ...

PHANG-NGA, Thailand: When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the south-western coast of Thailand in 2004, it claimed over 5,000 lives. But the local indigenous Moken people miraculously survived with ...

This week, Thailand marked 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Five thousand people were killed, but a local tribe managed miraculously to survive with almost no casualties among them.

at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn) Relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian ...

A ceremony was held in a southern province in Thailand to honor the victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004. Hundreds of visitors gathered to perform religious rites and pay their respects to ...

People gathered at mass graves in Indonesia, Thailand and other places along ... to mark two decades since the world’s largest tsunami. On Dec. 26, 2004, in one of the worst natural disasters ...

Twenty years ago, on 26 December 2004, an earthquake off ... were reported from Indonesia, the tsunami caused loss of life and property as far as Thailand, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and India.

As a panicked crowd of holidaymakers desperately ran through the back kitchen of a cafe on Thailand's Koh Phi Phi ... That early Boxing Day morning in 2004 had begun like any other day in paradise ...

People in Thailand should make disaster preparedness a habit to prevent massive casualties in the future, like those caused by the 2004 tsunami, says the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).