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

The tsunami was triggered by the longest ... hitting Sri Lanka, India and Thailand hours later. At their fastest the waves travelled at over 800 kilometres an hour (500 mph), more than twice ...

Prach Sawangpong, a teacher at Rajaprajanugroh 35 School who is the boarding school's emergency response coordinator, said ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake centered west of northern Sumatra and the ensuing tsunami killed ...

A mysterious pea soup fog mixed with coal smog that covered the city for days. In the fog there was a crime wave where criminals were hidden by the fog and police couldn’t operate, and there was ...

The 7 real life stories will introduce us to pain and teach us a thing or two about dealing with it. We never think that we ...

Some tsunami scenarios are way worse than the waves from the earthquake off Lisbon, Portugal that hit Florida 269 years ago. Twenty years after the catastrophic Boxing Day Tsunami killed some ...

Massive 13ft waves are battering the coastlines of Peru and Ecuador as of December 30. Footage captured in Piura, Peru on December 27 shows the high swells tossing boats around the water and ...

But these promises disappeared in the same way of the tsunami waves, despite billions of rupees given to help tsunami victims. In the aftermath of the tsunami, President Kumaratunga’s government ...

The Meiji Sanriku tsunami, which struck 126 years ago ... translation of the original text in its entirety. "Raging, high waves kept rushing, one after another, claiming 800 lives and sparing ...