Rescue workers make their way through an area devastated by a tsunami as they search for victims in Rikuzentakata March 21, 2011. (Damir Sagolj/Courtesy Reuters) In the wake of the tsunami and ...
Twenty years ago, the seafloor west of Indonesia abruptly pushed upward as a deep undersea fault, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates meet, slipped. The upward shove violently shifted the seawater ...
That’s how Vasily Titov, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Center for Tsunami Research described the aftermath of the largest tsunami on record, triggered by a 9.1 ...
"It's hard [for the younger generation] to understand," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy Soffie Modin, who was trapped for hours inside a home after ...
Individuals, corporations, and foundations in the United States donated $3.16-billion to help victims of the December 2004 South Asian tsunamis, according to a new study by the Center on Philanthropy ...
I visit the Tsunami Memorial in Khao Lak Thailand to reflect on the Khao Lak Tsunami 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami tragedy in Thailand and around the Indian Ocean. I'm sure we have all seen footage from the ...
Relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candlelight vigil as they recognize the 20th anniversary of the natural disaster, at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa ...
The interior designer and his longtime partner, acclaimed photographer, Fernando Bengoechea, were vacationing together in Sri Lanka when the disaster struck ...
Deacon Ned Berghausen, foreground right, is pictured helping carry a tsunami survivor to safety after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck Thailand. He was 24 years old at the time and The deacon, ...