The event, which began at 9am, brought together Thais and foreigners with a solemn remembrance of those who perished in the tsunami, and the laying of white flowers to honour their loss.

Nearly two decades later, tsunami survivors point to significant improvements in disaster preparedness. PHANG NGA, Thailand – On December 26th, 2004, a devastating tsunami struck Ban Nam Khem in ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has warned of tsunami amid a series of earthquakes in Santa Catalina town in Ilocos Sur, as it said a ...

26, to mark two decades since the world’s largest tsunami. On Dec. 26, 2004, in one of the worst natural disasters of the modern era, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake spurred catastrophic waves that ...

A frame of a homemade video shows tourists caught by the first of six tsunami rolling towards Hat ... [+] Rai Lay Beach, near Krabi in southern Thailand, following a 9.2-Richter submarine ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – Tearful mourners prayed on Dec 26 as ceremonies began across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian ...

The tsunami was triggered by the longest faultline rupture from an earthquake ever observed, seconds before 7:59 am on December 26, 2004. Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the ...

It was a close shave with death for Gagandeep Singh Bedi on December 26, 2004, when the Indian Ocean tsunami struck Tamil Nadu. The Cuddalore District Collector was at Hotel Tamil Nadu on the sea ...

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami generated by the quake of magnitude 9.1 was sourced off the Sumatran coast and was the third ...

COLOMBO: Twenty years after the massive Indian Ocean tsunami wreaked havoc on Sri Lanka, some survivors are still trying to pick up the pieces. Those living in poorly-constructed settlements ...

The tsunami lives vividly in his mind, and in the garage of his Thiruvananthapuram house, where his retired LML Vespa stands on a lofted perch, like a memorial to the surreal events of the morning ...

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 of modern history's worst ...