The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family’s house on the Andaman Sea coast of ...

more than 8,000 kilometers away. EFE Acehnese people pray and read the Koran at a mass grave for tsunami victims, during the 2004 Tsunami Commemoration ceremony in Banda Aceh, Indonesia ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec 24 (Reuters ... Hududillah was among those who lost many relatives when the tsunami struck on Dec. 26, 2004, killing 126,000 in Aceh, where no sirens were heard ...

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

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

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec 23 (Reuters ... who was six when the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami struck on Dec. 26, 2004, is still alive and has not given up hope that he might one day return.

A siren rang out as Indonesian survivors and relatives of victims began commemorations Thursday for more than 220,000 people killed when a tsunami hit nations around the Indian Ocean 20 years ago.

She didn't know at the time that the tsunami had hit a dozen countries, leaving about 230,000 dead, around a third of them in Indonesia ... and fear is never far away, he said.

The day is forever seared in Neungduangjai Sritrakarn's memory: Dec. 26, 2004, the day the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami struck ... were speeding away, trying to get as far as they could from ...