Survivors and victims' relatives will next week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, ...

The magnitude was initially recorded at 8.8, before the United States ... Warning systems - The tsunami also forced a reckoning about the preparedness of coastal communities around the Indian Ocean ...

Thailand and nine other nations around the Indian Ocean basin. The tsunami was triggered by the longest faultline rupture from an earthquake ever observed, seconds before 7:59 am on December 26 ...

Photo: AFP Tsunami-hit nations will next week commemorate the more than 220,000 people who died in the Boxing Day disaster two decades ago, when huge waves tore into coastal communities around the ...

before stopping at the nearby Tsunami Museum. Nearly 300 people were killed as far away as Somalia, as well as more than 100 in the Maldives and dozens in Malaysia and Myanmar. There was no warning ...

The seabed being ripped open pushed waves at double the speed of a bullet train, crossing the Indian Ocean within ... representing a wave, before stopping at the nearby Tsunami Museum.