It was 2004, the day after Christmas, and thousands of European and American tourists had flocked to the beaches of Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia to escape the winter chill in a tropical paradise.

Twenty years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami devastated 14 countries and claimed 228,000 lives, the University of Hawaiʻi-managed Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) has emerged as a global leader in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The quick thinking of a 10-year-old English girl, Tilly Smith, is credited with helping to save some 100 lives just before the ...

After the 2004 tsunami emptied Trinket Island, its cattle were left to survive without human care. Researchers reported about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candlelight vigil as they recognize the 20th anniversary of the ...

On December 26 2004, waves triggered by a massive earthquake slammed into the coastlines of countries ringing the Indian Ocean. The death toll was enormous. Worldwide, it is estimated that about ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries. A 9 ...

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JAKARTA, Indonesia—Ten years after a giant wave flattened large parts of coastal Aceh, killing nearly 170,000 people, the province in north Sumatra continues to struggle with high rates of poverty, ...

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An Indonesian official checks his phone for an SMS earthquake and tsunami warning alert during an Indian Ocean-wide tsunami exercise to test readiness in case of a ...