The giant waves that engulfed the impoverished province on the northern tip of Sumatra island on December 26, 2004, killing tens ... was born because of the tsunami. At the time, foreign countries ...

Weinstein who was in Colombo recently, reliving that long and fateful day of December 26, five years ago ... Dispelling speculation that at the time of the 2004 tsunami, the PTWC attempted to contact ...

With a magnitude of 9.5, this is the strongest earthquake ever recorded. It caused massive destruction and triggered a powerful tsunami. A 9.1–9.3 magnitude earthquake struck on December 26, 2004. It ...

Natural disasters can strike with little to no warning, as demonstrated by recent seismic events like the 6.9-magnitude earthquake near Papua New Guinea, which prompted tsunami warnings. This article ...

Presents a minute-by-minute account of the most destructive tsunami in modern times ... present in Thailand and Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004.

On the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, the residents of Banda Aceh were closest to the 9.0 quake’s epicenter, feeling it just before 8 a.m. on December 26, 2004. Minutes later, the tsunami that it ...