In a public high school, students regularly take part in disaster simulations and get ready to evacuate ahead of a possible ...

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

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

Former rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia's army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a ...

People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the ...

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, ...

Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without tsunami deaths is a challenge.

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

Emotional ceremonies were expected across Asia on Thursday to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will next week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, ...

Tamil Nadu commemorates the victims of the devastating 2004 tsunami, as Governor RN Ravi and local fishermen pay tribute on ...

The disaster that claimed 230,000 lives in Southeast Asia in December 2004 triggered an international awareness campaign. In ...