The majority of deaths from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were in Indonesia. But the island of Simeulue was largely spared.

Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...

Casualties and destruction The devastation ... still face financial insecurity and barriers to recovery. The 2004 tsunami reshaped global disaster response, advancing early warning systems and ...

The Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami began with a powerful 9.3 ... Thailand where most of the country’s more than 5,000 tsunami deaths occurred. During a visit this month by NBC News, vacationers lounged ...

According to the official data by the United Nations, casualties were more than 126,000 ... warning systems in the Indian Ocean before the 2004 tsunami had made the disaster's impact worse.

Survivors and victims' relatives will next week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian ... Over 2.26 Lakh Deaths A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami, according to ...

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustained the brunt of the damage. Indonesian officials estimated that ...

Twenty years have now passed since a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami ... confirmed deaths and millions displaced following the historic event. On the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, an ...

People in Thailand should make disaster preparedness a habit to prevent massive casualties in the future, like those caused by the 2004 tsunami, says the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that killed around 230,000 people across a dozen countries, reaching as far as East ...

The tsunami was the deadliest natural ... that's a big difference in terms of what happened in 2004.” Preventing a massive number of casualties is about more than just providing rapid warnings.