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 ...

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 ...

Faultline rupture - The tsunami was triggered by the ... hitting Sri Lanka, India and Thailand hours later. At their fastest the waves travelled at over 800 kilometres an hour (500 mph), more ...

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 ...