On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, the coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, was filled with thousands of people ...

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustained the brunt of the damage. Indonesian officials estimated that ...

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

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

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 ...

The tsunami science world was small and mostly under the radar of mainstream media. There was plenty of interesting work ...

Understanding of the Sumatran subduction zone and its hazards has increased since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...

Twenty years ago, on Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to ...

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 ...

Nearly a quarter of a million people died from the earthquake and tsunami of December 26, 2004; the majority of deaths were in Indonesia. But one island, off the coast of the hardest-hit province in ...

This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anita Baca, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide made or ...

Tearful mourners prayed and lit candles Thursday at ceremonies across Asia to remember the 220,000 people killed two decades ...