Jakarta, Dec 26 (EFE).- Indonesia on Thursday remembered its 167,000 victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at the Sumatran city of Banda Aceh’s Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, one of the only ...

NBC Universal, Inc. People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh ... Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that killed around 230,000 ...

This year marks two decades since the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami ... On the morning of December 26, 2004, a massive undersea megathrust earthquake measuring 9.1 on the Richter scale struck near Sumatra ...

Through collaborations with communities, Mercy Corps is supporting locally led disaster preparedness in the wake of the 2004 ...

2004, amid the devastation in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province in northwest Indonesia, following the December 26 tsunami [File: Bullit Marquez/AP Photo] While the tragedy that unfolded on ...

Dec. 26 (UPI ... country of Benin. In 2004, an earthquake-triggered tsunami raced across the Indian Ocean with 40-foot-high waves slamming into India, Thailand, Indonesia and several other ...

At around 1 am local time on 26 December ... the Mediterranean. In 2004, the data to help inform these warnings was limited. The tsunami risk was considered low in Indonesia, one of the worst ...

On December 26, 2004, the Indian Ocean experienced one of the deadliest tsunamis in recorded history. Triggered by a massive undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the tsunami ...

A 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra ... Citation: 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: what to know 20 years on (2024, December 26) retrieved 17 January 2025 from https ...

Dec. 26 (UPI ... country of Benin. In 2004, an earthquake-triggered tsunami raced across the Indian Ocean with 40-foot-high waves slamming into India, Thailand, Indonesia and several other ...

SINGAPORE – Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong has received a lifetime award from a university in Indonesia in recognition of Singapore’s contribution to relief efforts for the 2004 tsunami.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Indonesia's northern Sumatra island after a massive undersea earthquake triggered a tsunami December 26, 2004. (Photo by Getty Images) In the years ...