Tourists play on Bang Niang Beach Dec. 8, where a tsunami hit Dec. 26, 2004, in Takuapa, southern Thailand. The Associated Press BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) — The 20-year-old freshman student was ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) -- The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family's house on the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand when her mom, sensing something ...

Thousands gathered in mourning on Thursday, Dec. 26, to mark two decades since the world’s largest tsunami. On Dec. 26, 2004, in one of the worst natural disasters of the modern era, a 9.1 magnitude ...

The world's deadliest tsunami hit nations around the Indian Ocean two decades ago before social media platforms flourished, but they have since transformed how we understand and respond to disasters - ...

Twenty years have now passed since a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated communities in Southeast Asia, resulting in more than 220,000 confirmed deaths and millions displaced ...

A woman comforts her daughter after prayers at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh - Copyright AFP Yasuyoshi CHIBA Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) — The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family’s house on the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand when her mom, sensing something ...