It’s been 20 years since a devastating earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a killer tsunami that swept away over 225,000 ...

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 ...

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Hoosier Jim Morris was serving as the head of the World Food Programme, which had already been providing aid to the civil war ...

The tsunami of December 2004 was easily the biggest natural disaster to strike Sri Lanka and left a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. Nearly 38,000 lives were lost and two-thirds of the ...

The eight-carriage train carries around 1,700 passengers travelling from Sri Lanka’s largest city of Colombo to the city of Galle on the south of the island. It is Sunday, December 26, 2004 ...

Millions of Americans are under weather warnings or advisories today as the U.S. braces for a new winter storm this week. A ...

December 26 marked 20 years since a massive tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, leaving death and destruction in its wake on a vast scale in country after country. Officially, an estimated ...

The vastness of the inundation deeply affected Sri Lanka’s communities and structures, underscoring the tsunami’s immense destructive capability. The magnitude of inland reach was a key factor in the ...

The 26-year-long civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE officially ended in May 2009 after claiming around 70,000 lives and displacing four times as many. Both sides committed a ...

The international delegation includes representatives from Fiji, Finland, Guyana, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

As if Florida needs another type of natural disaster to worry about. That said, scientists warned for decades a tsunami could jet our way at more than 500 mph. It's happened before. Few were ...