Tourists visit the memorial monument to commemorate the victims of the 2004 tsunami, in Peraliya on December 25, 2024 - Copyright AFP ROMEO GACAD Tourists visit the ...

As powerful waves surged across the vast Pacific on Wednesday, people around the world remained glued to their phones, tracking the tsunami’s fast progress. But in China, more than a million people ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) — 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 mom, sensing something ...

Dessy Sagita with Sally Jensen in Ban Nam Khem Dec 26, 2024 Dec 26, 2024 Updated Dec 27, 2024 Tearful mourners prayed and lit candles Thursday at ceremonies across Asia to remember the 220,000 people ...

Relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candlelight vigil as they recognize the 20th anniversary of the natural disaster, at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa ...

A month after the disaster, residents are still struggling to recover as anger against Jakarta’s slow rescue response mounts.

PHANG NGA, Thailand (Reuters) - Communities across Asia commemorated the more than 230,000 victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Thursday, the 15th anniversary of one of the world's most deadly ...

The massive tsunami that killed more than 35,000 people in Asia has spared oil and gas operations in the region with most companies reporting that their facilities were unaffected by the disaster.

Wassana Suthi spent last week trying to keep a nursing home running as the floodwaters rose around her in the southern Thai city of Hat Yai, cutting the home off from outside help, bar one helicopter ...

PASADENA, Calif.–The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory, mostly on account of the devastating tsunami that followed it. A group of ...

The most dangerous thing that can happen in the eerie vacuum between an earthquake and a tsunami is nothing. Once a tsunami warning is issued, the size of the wave and the number of minutes before it ...