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 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 ...

On December 26, 2004, a powerful undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered the deadliest tsunami in recorded history. Within hours, towering waves struck 14 countries, ...

The interior designer and his longtime partner, acclaimed photographer, Fernando Bengoechea, were vacationing together in Sri Lanka when the disaster struck ...

"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 ...

"I could not ignore them," Thuleewan “Kimmy” Boonyarattana tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy Thuleewan “Kimmy” Boonyarattana escaped the devastating 2004 ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia Dec. 26, 2024 3:21 p.m. A relative of a victim of a 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami participates in its 20th anniversary at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of ...

December 26 marked 20 years since a massive tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, leaving death and destruction in its wake on a vast scale in country after country. Officially, an estimated 227,000 ...

KHAO LAK, Thailand — Watana Sittirachot was raised at an orphanage in Thailand for children affected by the 2004 Asian tsunami. Now, 20 years after the disaster changed the course of his life, he’s ...

Over 225,000 people were killed in Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami Content creator Meghan McTavish is recalling how she and her family survived the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami She ...

KURUKKAL MADAM, Sri Lanka — Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, the boy once known ...

The Calcutta High Court said that the administration failed to provide evidence that the compensation scheme was legally ...