More than 227,000 people were killed in the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and experts warn it could happen again. An Acehnese man among the ruins in Banda Aceh, on January 13 ...

A two-minute silence was observed across Sri Lanka today (December 26) from 9:25 a.m. to 9:27 a.m. to honor the memory of those who perished in the 2004 tsunami and other natural calamities, as ...

ABC News’ Diane Sawyer interviewed Nemcova in the months after the tragedy. Now, 20 years after one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, Petra sat down with Sawyer again to reflect on ...

Jakarta, Dec 26 (EFE).- Indonesia on Thursday remembered its 167,000 victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at the Sumatran city of Banda Aceh’s Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, one of the only ...

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

On December 26, 2004, the Indian Ocean experienced one of the deadliest tsunamis in recorded history. Triggered by a massive undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the tsunami ...

The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that impacted a dozen countries, reaching as far as East Africa. NBC Universal ...

December 26, 2024, marked the 20th anniversary of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It was also the day that former ...

The tsunami was triggered by the longest faultline rupture from an earthquake ever observed, seconds before 7:59 am on December 26, 2004. The ocean floor opened at least 1,200 kilometers (750 ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet high, killing an estimated 230,000 people. Twenty years later, people gathered ...

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami generated by the quake of magnitude 9.1 was sourced off the Sumatran coast and was the third ...

At 7:58 am local time on December 26, 2004, an earthquake of moment magnitude ... warning systems in the Indian Ocean before the 2004 tsunami had made the disaster's impact worse.