Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

Twenty years after an Indian Ocean tsunami killed thousands, Riley Kehoe recalls the terror she felt as a girl facing a ...

Richard de Gottal, from Worthing, said surviving the tsunami in Thailand had left him with an ... unwittingly missing the first of the two tsunamis which hit the island that morning.

ANDAMAN SEA, Thailand - Almost 1,000km off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves – a key link in a warning system intended to ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) — The 20-year-old freshman ... the day the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami struck across South and Southeast Asia, after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the west coast ...

Between 1,000 and 2,000 children lost at least one parent to the tsunami in Thailand, according to a ... 2005 Watana became one of its first 32 residents in 2006. Now he is the secretary-general ...