PASADENA, Calif.–The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory, mostly on account of the devastating tsunami that followed it. A group of ...
A frame of a homemade video shows tourists caught by the first of six tsunami rolling towards Hat Rai Lay Beach, near Krabi in southern Thailand, following a 9.2-Richter submarine earthquake on ...
In the wee hours of December 26, 2004, a massive 9.2 earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, generating an equally massive tsunami that caused unprecedented devastation to 14 countries and killed ...
The magnitude 9 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, killed over 230,000 people in 15 countries. The Indonesian province of Aceh was especially hard hit. Twenty years on, VOA’s ...
Earthquakes account for some of the costliest natural disasters in history. They can literally reshape the planet. But how powerful can they get? That's a question humans have only recently been able ...