The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family's house on the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand when her mum, sensing something wasn't right, woke her up ...

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 ...

The 2004 tsunami killed more than 5,000 people in Thailand, according to official figures, with 3,000 missing. Now the country's two DART buoys are linked by satellite to a nationwide network of ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries.

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REFILES to fix intro to read 'this week' sted 'next' as sent Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed ...

Thailand has installed buoys far off its coast that have become a crucial part of a global tsunami warning system since the devastating 2004 earthquake and tsunami.

Location of sea level monitoring stations in the Indian Ocean region since the 9.1-magnitude Sumatra earthquake of December 26, 2004. Photo: AFP Almost 1,000 kilometres off the Thai coast devastated ...

‘Tsunami buoy Thai 23461’ was released from on board the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Centre (SEAFDEC) ship in the Andaman Sea on Nov 27. (AFP pic) Almost 1,000 kilometres off the ...

Andaman Sea (Thailand) (AFP) – Almost 1,000 kilometres off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves -- a key link in a warning system ...