Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...

Countries across Asia held ceremonies to remember hundreds of thousands of people killed during the massive Indian Ocean tsunami two decades ago. People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves ...

Twenty years ago, the world was stunned by the Asian tsunami, whose towering waves killed an estimated 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and other countries the day after ...

In Thailand, for example ... but as a benchmark, in the 2004 event tsunami waves pummeled the Sumatran coast for 12 hours following just five minutes of shaking.) Time can be the enemy of ...

On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a huge tsunami with waves up to 30 metres ... more than 5,000 people in Thailand, according to official figures ...

India and Thailand, which the tsunami hit hours later. People recounted harrowing tales of horror and miraculous survival as giant waves swept in without warning, carrying debris including cars ...

Presents a minute-by-minute account of the most destructive tsunami in modern times, told through archives and personal testimonies of survivors present in Thailand and Sri Lanka on December 26 ...

"As an island boy, I knew the sound of waves," he said ... 1,000 and 2,000 children lost at least one parent to the tsunami in Thailand, according to a United Nations Relief Web humanitarian ...