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

Luke Simon lost his brother, Piers, in the tsunami disaster in Thailand and has since spoken out on the anniversary of the ...

PHANG-NGA, Thailand: When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the south-western coast of Thailand in 2004, it claimed over 5,000 lives. But the local indigenous Moken people miraculously survived with almost ...

Yesterday, communities along Thailand’s Andaman coast held ceremonies to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 2004 tsunami ...

Prach Sawangpong, a teacher at Rajaprajanugroh 35 School who is the boarding school's emergency response coordinator, said ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, in one of the worst natural disasters of the modern era, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake spurred catastrophic ...

The tsunami that rose from this great shifting of tectonic plates reached over 115 feet in some places and ultimately killed ...

There were similar memorial ceremonies in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing town in Thailand that was among those most devastated by the tsunami in the country, as well Chennai, India, and Pereliya ...

The commemoration served as a platform for ASEAN to reflect on its progress in disaster resilience over the two decades since ...

Grim-faced rescuers were tying ropes to the stiff, jutting legs and arms of bloated corpses floating in the Andaman Sea, and bringing them to shore after an earthquake under the Indian Ocean ...

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