The resulting tsunami unleashed waves more than 100 feet high and as fast as an airliner. Within hours, the tsunami had claimed nearly 230,000 human lives and displaced millions of people in 12 ...
People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of modern history's worst ...
Some 6,000 aftershocks followed. The tsunami that rose from this great shifting of tectonic plates reached over 115 feet in some places and ultimately killed about 230,000 people in Indonesia ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark ...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region ...
December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami generated by the quake of magnitude 9.1 was sourced off the Sumatran coast and was the third ...
BANDA ACEH: Tearful mourners prayed on Thursday (Dec 26) as ceremonies were held across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who were killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around ...