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 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 ...

In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed ... was one of them. The wave ripped him from his mother ...

THE Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, one of the deadliest events in recorded history, was an enigma to many survivors.

“Everybody was very intrigued by it, and we all stood at the seaside to look at it again,” he said, recalling the fateful day of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. When another large wave ...

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 ...

A woman sprinkles water on a stone marking a mass grave of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ... of the devastating wave in the country. Relatives of a victim of the tsunami hug each ...

On December 26, 2004, tsunami waves as high as 30 metres (98 feet ... sending giant waves hurtling towards coastal communities around the Indian Ocean basin. The seabed being ripped open pushed ...

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

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 ...