Twenty years after the deadliest wave in recorded history, most oceans have warning systems and communities have learned how best to escape the danger.

At 7:59 a.m. (local time) on the day after Christmas in 2004, the third-largest earthquake ... “One of the hard-to-grasp ...

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

An aerial view shows an electric generator barge that was swept inland during the 2004 tsunami ... off the western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered huge waves that swept into coastal ...

Former rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia's army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a ...

Indonesia's meteorological and geophysics agency BMKG issued a tsunami warning just after the initial quake, warning of potential waves of 0.5 ... The tsunami height was estimated to be less ...

It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killing about 4,340 people. In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will next week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ... coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered huge waves that swept ...