Seven people were aboard the Cessna 208 Caravan and only one of them was rescued unharmed post the crash at the Rottnest ...

Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...

This week marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the ...

Understanding of the Sumatran subduction zone and its hazards has increased since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...

People are gathering in prayer and visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive ...

Sharon Howard has returned to Thailand to mark the 20th anniversary of losing her six-year-old son Taylor, his eight-year-old ...

When Hook was a child, he star­ted his days by jumping off the boat that his family lived on and into the ocean.

By the time the oldest human dies, odds are there's a giant tortoise out there somewhere who'll live twice as long as they did. Hailing from the Indian Ocean and the Galapagos islands, giant tortoises ...

A man caught up in a devastating tsunami 20 years ago has recalled the final moments before his older brother was swept away ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting" – two decades on ...

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, also known as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, was a geological event of unexampled scale.