I watched a new documentary that set me at odds with December’s frenzied pace. For me, the month has evolved from a time of ...

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

This week marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the ...

Let’s get the elephant out of the room: a two-hour documentary built around the trauma and grief of those caught up in the ...

I don’t wish ever a disaster of this magnitude on anyone,” one woman said. But the 2004 Asian tsunami also made her realize ...

Twenty years ago today, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake unleashed a tsunami across the Indian Ocean region. Towering waves, some ...

A woman who survived the Boxing Day tsunami 20 years ago said the disaster has given her an "extraordinary purpose" in life.

It has been 20 years since the deadliest tsunami ever recorded, one that devastated communities around the Indian ocean and killed more than 200,000 people. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer spoke with ...

Memory canonization is evident in the creation of disaster monuments and commemoration events, including in Aceh.

The powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggered a tsunami that killed ...

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

Twenty years ago, a tsunami devastated coastal communities along the Indian Ocean. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Margarettha Siregar, who helped respond to the disaster in Indonesia.