Thousands gathered in mourning on Thursday, Dec. 26, to mark two decades since the world’s largest tsunami. On Dec. 26, 2004, in one of the worst natural disasters of the modern era, a 9.1 magnitude ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand — The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family's house on the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand when her mom, sensing something ...

"I remember the feeling of the wave passing on my face," one survivor recalls in the trailer for National Geographic's "Tsunami: Race Against Time" Nearly two decades have passed since the deadliest ...

"It's hard [for the younger generation] to understand that it wasn't so easy," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue In the aftermath of the tragedy, Modin says she was wrapped with wire around her ...

Geophysicist here. I remember attending a lecture in Perth, Western Australia on damage from the tsunami a few months after the event. The speaker showed a video sequence of people walking around in ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) — The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family's house on the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand when her mom, sensing something ...

In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the Acehnese interpreted the disaster in various ways. Initially, the tsunami was interpreted as a punishment or warning from God. Over time, a ...

230,000 deaths from a single event (of any kind) is just mind boggling. It’s the kind of number I’d expect from some kind of nuclear attack on a small city. Truly heartbreaking losses touching so many ...