Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...

The wave ripped him from his mother sow ... Part of the problem was that there was no tsunami warning center in the Indian Ocean. And the series follows a group of scientists who realize that ...

At the time of the earthquake, there was no warning system in place in the Indian Ocean. But now, 1,400 stations globally cut warning times to just minutes after a tsunami wave forms. Experts said ...

A woman sprinkles water on a stone marking a mass grave of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ... of the devastating wave in the country. Relatives of a victim of the tsunami hug each ...

The seabed being ripped open pushed waves at double the speed of a bullet train, crossing the Indian Ocean within hours without warning. A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami ...

“The devastation was unimaginable,” said Arianto Andrian, describing what he experienced in Indonesia as he recalled the catastrophic Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that struck the shores of ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet high, killing an estimated 230,000 people. Twenty years later, people gathered ...

As if Florida needs another type of natural disaster to worry about. That said, scientists warned for decades a tsunami could jet our way at more than 500 mph. It's happened before. Few were around in ...

Two major tsunami that swamped the east coast have been labelled a "missed opportunities", so what do we need to change to be ...

The resulting tsunami struck nations in the Indian Ocean including Thailand and Sri Lanka and reached as far as Africa, killing an estimated 220,000-plus people, including about 40 Japanese.

The seabed being ripped open pushed waves at double the speed of a bullet ... 01:45 Min The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was triggered by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded.