Dec. 26 (UPI ... Boeing 727 crash in the West African country of Benin. In 2004, an earthquake-triggered tsunami raced across the Indian Ocean with 40-foot-high waves slamming into India ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia Dec. 26, 2024 3:21 p.m. A relative of a victim of a 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami participates in its 20th anniversary at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet high, killing an estimated 230,000 people. Twenty years later, people gathered ...

IAS Radhakrishnan, who was the district collector then, played a key role in rescue and relief operations after the tsunami ...

The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004 ... India, including nearly 7,000 people in Tamil Nadu alone. “It has been 20 years since the tsunami ...

NAGAPATTINAM: Meena, the youngest survivor of the 2004 tsunami from Annai Sathya Government Children’s Home, Nagapattinam, ...

India and Thailand, which were the worst hit by one of the deadliest disasters in modern history. On December 26, 2004, tsunami waves as high as 30 metres (98 feet) in some areas wiped out ...

Satish BABU/AFP/AFP The deadly tsunami that swamped India's southern ... Very afraid' - The December 26, 2004 disaster was not caused by climate change but by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake that ...

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 ...

Relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candle light vigil ... southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn) Infrastructure in Aceh has been rebuilt ...