NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Survivors and families of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia in ...

History has a way of repeating itself. But unlike science, built on general principles and testable theories about the ...

It's been two decades since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and the deadly disaster has had a lasting influence on disaster awareness. The December 26, 2004, tsunami was caused by a 9.1 magnitude ...

But that's a false impression, because the tsunami is coming," he said. The resulting waves would be on the order of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed nearly 230,000 people.

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami remains the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century and the worst tsunami disaster in history. Arriving on Boxing Day, an undersea earthquake triggered waves of up ...

Before giant waves slammed into Sri Lanka and India coastlines ten days ago, wild and domestic animals seemed to know what was about to happen and fled to safety. According to eyewitness accounts ...

People started gathering in prayer on Thursday and visiting the mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, one of modern history's worst ...

That’s far larger than the waves recorded for either the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 or the Tōhoku tsunami in 2011. Those tsunamis were caused by an earthquake, however, and the wave heights ...

FS Charles de Gaulle will be the first French aircraft carrier to be deployed to the Pacific Ocean since 1968.

Russia's space agency says a Soviet spacecraft fell back to Earth Saturday morning over the Indian Ocean. It was originally headed to Venus, but instead spent more than 50 years orbiting Earth.