The tsunami was the deadliest natural disaster in the 21st century and one of the deadliest in recorded history. Head of ...

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

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Sumatra, causing a massive wave that devastated ...

More than 227,000 people died in the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and experts warn it could happen again.

Some 230,000 people died as the tsunami leveled remote villages ... And in Aceh, Indonesia, the worst-hit area nearest the quake's epicenter, people search for survivors and food in towns that ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — 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 ...

Faultline rupture - The tsunami ... area was northern Sumatra, where more than 120,000 people were killed out of a total of 165,708 dead in Indonesia. The huge waves travelled around the Indian ...

Ban Nam Khem was devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit on Boxing Day in 2004 ... like dust covering the whole area. It filled up the sky as I watched from here," Banlue said, describing ...

Tsunami-hit nations will next week commemorate the more than 220,000 people who died in the Boxing Day disaster two decades ago, when huge waves tore into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean.

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