BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) — The 20-year-old freshman ... the day the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami struck across South and Southeast Asia, after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the west coast ...

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there is no tsunami threat to Guam or the Northern Marianas from an earthquake in the Vanuatu Islands. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake ...

I don’t wish ever a disaster of this magnitude on anyone,” one woman said. But the 2004 Asian tsunami also made her realize ...

ANDAMAN SEA, Thailand - Almost 1,000km off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves – a key link in a warning system intended to ...

Dave explained how he heard there were deaths in Thailand on Boxing Day morning and rang his son but there was no answer. Dave, now 65, said: "I heard about [the tsunami] as we were coming into ...

Over 1,700 Singaporeans were in the countries the Indian Ocean tsunami swept through in 2004. At least nine of them were killed and a dozen missing. One survivor, Lavan Vickneson, who was then 12 ...

On this day 20 years ago, the world looked aghast as the deadliest tsunami in history ripped across ... In Khao Lak, in the south of Thailand, the memories are still incredibly raw.

BANGKOK, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Commemorations were held across Thailand along its Andaman coast on Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami. Speaking at a ...

After the deadliest tsunami in history claimed her only daughter, Elisabeth Zana considered taking her own life – until a school in Thailand reignited her sense of purpose. Against the backdrop ...

In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore the brunt of the devastating wave in the country. The tsunami claimed ...

Luke Simon, from Somerset, was celebrating Christmas with his brother Piers and their friends in Thailand's Koh Phi Phi resort when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit on Boxing Day in 2004. More than ...

In Thailand's Ban Nam Khem, a village hard hit by the tsunami, around 300 people attended interfaith prayers. In India, hundreds of people gathered in Chennai, where the tsunami killed 10,749 people.