The 2004 tsunami was not simply a natural disaster but a graphic exposure of the failure of the capitalist system, the ruling ...

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustained the brunt of the damage. Indonesian officials estimated that ...

More than 220,000 people across a dozen countries were killed. Before 2004, the Indian Ocean had no dedicated tsunami warning system, leaving the region largely unprepared for such disasters.

The waters quickly closed in without warning and he and his ... Ardito Kodijat, Head of UNESCO’s Indian Ocean Tsunami Information Centre, says the system has been tested several times since ...

In communities across the Indian Ocean, the devastation was unlike ... Now the city has a new quake detection and tsunami warning system, which its residents hope will remain ready but unused.

People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami ... disaster, a tsunami warning system has ...

Two major tsunami that swamped the east coast have been labelled a "missed opportunities", so what do we need to change to be ...

NBC Universal, Inc. People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of ...

Within hours, the tsunami had claimed nearly 230,000 human lives and displaced millions of people in 12 countries. Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ...

The tsunami also forced a reckoning about the preparedness of coastal communities around the Indian Ocean basin. At the time of the earthquake, there was no warning system in place in the Indian ...