It's been 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of modern history's worst natural disasters. I've been on 50 cruises. Here are 5 things I never buy on the ships.

She didn't know at the time that the tsunami had hit a dozen countries, leaving about 230,000 dead, around a third of them in Indonesia. Some 1.7 million people were displaced, mostly in the four ...

Twenty years ago, a catastrophic tsunami in Southeast Asia led to a big downturn in Swiss tourists heading to the region. Today, countries like Thailand are again among top destinations ...

as it raced toward the shorelines of South and Southeast Asia and East Africa. Earthquake sensors hinted at the potential for destruction and death. But tsunami experts watching that data did not ...

The tsunami was triggered by a powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on 26 December 2024, reaching as far as east Africa. Some 1.7 million people were displaced ...

Survivors and families of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia in ceremonies on Thursday to ...

Buddhist monks also entered the tsunami's shattered killing zones and other sites where they chanted and performed rituals, hoping to restore harmony. In this deeply superstitious Southeast Asian ...

The tsunami was triggered by the longest faultline ... arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. A total of 226,408 people died ...

Memories of the tsunami are painful ... In the Asia-Pacific region, initiatives such as the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (Seadrif) and the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance ...