Revisiting field research in Ampara by Prof. Amarasiri de Silva The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, also known as the Boxing Day tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra on ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a massive earthquake off Indonesia generated a series of massive waves that killed 226,408 people ...

Beachside memorials and religious ceremonies will be held in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, which were the worst ...

More than 227,000 people died in the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and experts warn it could happen again.

Indonesia suffered the highest death toll ... A brief religious ceremony will be held with relatives of the dead there while ...

Emotional ceremonies are expected across Asia on Thursday to remember more than 220,000 people who died two decades ago when ...

In a public high school, students regularly take part in disaster simulations and get ready to evacuate ahead of a possible ...

KUALA LUMPUR - Working as a concierge at a firm in Singapore requires Zainab Ash Shughra Amer to be adept at interacting with ...

With flickering candles and the sound of organs, hundreds of Catholics held a muted Christmas Eve mass in Indonesia's Aceh ...

Christmas Day is celebrated around the world, but the ways it is observed vary greatly depending on cultural, and regional ...

However, the disaster shattered her childhood, claiming the lives of her parents and younger sister, who was only 6 when their home was hit by the giant waves.Infrastructure in Aceh has been rebuilt ...

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...