Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated Aceh proved to be a blessing in disguise by paving the way for the immediate resolution ...

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

Indonesia on Thursday remembered its 167,000 victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at the Sumatran city of Banda Aceh’s Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, one of the only buildings to withstand the ...

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

A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami, according to EM-DAT. Most of those killed were in Aceh, Indonesia.

A siren rang out as Indonesian survivors and relatives of victims began commemorations today for more than 220,000 people ...

Tearful mourners prayed and lit candles on Thursday night at ceremonies across Asia to remember the 220,000 people killed two ...

Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia, Masaki Yasushi, has expressed the hope that the Aceh government will strengthen disaster ...

(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) People perform a Friday prayer at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) People sit at a coffee shop on the ...

The 22-minute documentary features survivors and how they rebuilt their lives after the disaster. Read more at ...

Victims of one of world’s worst natural disasters, which killed 220,000 people from Indonesia to Somalia, commemorated two ...