On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet high, killing an estimated 230,000 people. Twenty years later, people gathered ...

Chennai, December 26 (ANI): 20th Tsunami Memorial Day is being observed in Chennai on December 26. On December 26, 2004, a tsunami occurred due earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.

A woman places portraits of her relatives at the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park in southern Thai province of Phang Nga on Dec 26, 2024. (Photo: AFP/Lillian Suwanrumpha) A family leaves flowers ...

unofficial vigils were expected to accompany a government memorial ceremony. At a hotel in Phang Nga province, there will host a tsunami exhibition, a documentary screening and introductions by ...

Local official Siwat Rawangkun chaired religious ceremonies for Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims before placing flowers at the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park in Phang Nga. Many locals and ...

In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore the brunt of the devastating wave in the country. The tsunami claimed ...

At memorial sites for the victims around the region ... Now the city has a new quake detection and tsunami warning system, which its residents hope will remain ready but unused.

In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore the brunt of the devastating waves. The tsunami also claimed the lives ...

As an eight-year-old boy Pirun Kla-Talay was orphaned by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Now he makes his living from the waters that claimed his parents. Each morning the fisherman sets out ...

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture—A school building here that was destroyed in a water-fire combination during the 2011 tsunami has been rebuilt into a disaster memorial. The former Kadonowaki ...

Dudley co-founded the museum with tsunami survivor Jeanne Johnston in 1994 to educate residents and visitors about the natural disaster and to serve as a living memorial to those who lost their lives.

it's kind of like a national trauma," she said. After sunset, hundreds of mourners carried candles past the tsunami memorial wall at Ban Nam Khem before watching a fire dance performance.