Rachel Hearson says it was a "miracle" she found a "pocket of air" and managed to survive the catastrophic tsunami that swept through the Indian Ocean, including the Phi Phi Islands in Thailand, on ...

When an earthquake threatens to turn part of an ocean into fast-moving walls of water, tsunami warning scientists can do nothing for the first five minutes except wait for information. But within the ...

Finally, we learnt that the effect of modern tsunamis carries far further than people might have imagined. On the west coast of the United States Professor Samuel Chan is an expert in invasive species ...

Tsunamis are notoriously difficult to spot on the open ocean as they race towards shore. But in the summer of 2025, ...

"Woven Together: Reflections" is on display at the Cristina Grajales Gallery in New York City through January Ashley Burns Photography Nate Berkus' life changed forever on Dec. 26, 2004. The interior ...

The quick thinking of a 10-year-old English girl, Tilly Smith, is credited with helping to save some 100 lives just before the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 struck the island of Phuket in Thailand. The ...

The Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami devastated Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, killing nearly 300,000 people. The earthquake that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami took place on December ...

I started shaking when I first heard about the tsunami that struck Indonesia in December. The reason? On Dec. 26, 2004, my sister Penny and I were washed ashore by the tsunami that started with a ...

I visit the Tsunami Memorial in Khao Lak Thailand to reflect on the Khao Lak Tsunami 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami tragedy in ...

Within minutes, tsunami sirens blared and 2,700 residents evacuated to higher ground. Waves up to 5 meters high inundated the port and fish factory, but no lives were lost. The town's survival ...