On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...

Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...

Infrastructure in Aceh has been rebuilt and is now more resilient than before the tsunami struck. Early warning systems have ...

Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...

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

Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies - One of modern history’s worst ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami ...

The body of Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose death has spark outpourings of grief at home and accolades ...

Twenty years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that claimed over 230,000 lives across the Indian Ocean region, ...

People visit areas of mass graves in Banda Aceh, offer prayers for victims of deadly disaster that struck 20 years ago - ...

The earthquake and tsunami claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century.

But it was Aceh, Indonesia – a province already blighted by decades of civil war – that was hardest hit, particularly the capital Banda Aceh, where waves of up to 20-30m swept through the city ...