On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...

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

Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her ...

Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...

The earthquake and tsunami claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century.

Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated Aceh proved to be a blessing in disguise by paving the way for the immediate resolution ...

Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...

Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without ...

Indonesians pray for those who lost their lives in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at a mass grave in Banda Aceh on the 20th anniversary of the disaster. More than 220,000 people across Asia died two ...

Two decades after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Indonesia, some survivors are rebuilding their lives in the ...

The brunt of the tsunami was felt in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where 170,000 people perished. Sri Lanka, India and ...