Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustained the brunt of the damage. Indonesian officials estimated that ...

The huge waves travelled around the Indian Ocean ... to just minutes after a tsunami wave forms. Experts said the lack of a properly coordinated warning system in 2004 had made the disaster's ...

The resulting tsunami unleashed waves more than 100 feet high and ... Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern ...

Relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candle ... that bore the brunt of the devastating wave in the country. The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand ...

Let’s get the elephant out of the room: a two-hour documentary built around the trauma and grief of those caught up in the ...

People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean ... on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that killed ...

By Katrina Miller The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, one of the deadliest events ... number of the people in the path of those lethal waves had never heard of such a destructive phenomenon until ...

It created waves more than 30 meters (100 feet ... tsunami can never be completely prevented. Citation: 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: what to know 20 years on (2024, December 26) retrieved 10 ...

People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian ... 2004, triggered a tsunami that killed around 230,000 people ...