Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ... Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other nations around the Indian ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

The powerful earthquake ... India and Thailand. More than 170,000 people died in Indonesia alone. A woman sprinkles water on a stone marking a mass grave of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean ...

Exactly 20 years ago, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake occurred on Dec. 26 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The resulting tsunami struck nations in the Indian Ocean ... of Dec. 26, 2004, that ...

“The devastation was unimaginable,” said Arianto Andrian, describing what he experienced in Indonesia as he recalled the catastrophic Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that struck the shores of ...

The tsunami devastated communities around the Indian Ocean - Copyright AFP ROMEO GACAD The tsunami devastated communities around the Indian Ocean - Copyright AFP ...

The tsunami was triggered by the longest faultline rupture from an earthquake ever observed, seconds before 7:59 am on December 26, 2004 ... the Indian Ocean, hitting Sri Lanka, India and ...

December 26, 2004 [AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe] The Indian Ocean tsunami ... magnitude earthquake that triggered the tsunami. The death toll in Sri Lanka was 35,262 and 16,389 in India.