The 40-year-old Gold Coast, Australia, resident was suddenly flooded with vivid recollections of Christmas 2004, when she and ...

A massive undersea earthquake near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific, affecting ...

A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that sends surges of water, sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet (30.5 meters), ...

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The event occurred off the southwest Boso Peninsula, which is just south of ...

Relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candlelight vigil as they recognize the 20th anniversary of the natural disaster, at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa ...

In 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean released energy equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima type atomic bombs. 20 years later, we examine the disaster and its toll.

It has been 20 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people and caused widespread destruction across 15 countries. At around 1 am local time on 26 December, a ...

How the Indian Ocean gets its tsunami early warnings For more than 40 years, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) has been alerting countries in the Pacific region to the dangers of killer waves.

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 ...

Revisiting the Indonesian Tsunami 18 photos The devastating Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami struck a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean rim, killing about 230,000 people.

The Indian Ocean seen from Meulaboh, on the West coast of Sumatra. The town of Meulaboh, which had a population of 120,000 before the tsunami, was struck by a series of seven waves, killing an ...