Bente Sustmann passed away on Monday, January 6, 2025, at the age of 64 after a prolonged battle with cancer. Her funeral ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Miyazaki Prefecture Monday evening in Japan, initially setting off a ...

Along Thailand’s Andaman coast ... A view she said wouldn’t be there if not for the tsunami that destroyed parts of the coast. In Phang Nga, life has been rebuilt and the tourists are back ...

Commemorating 20 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the deadliest in history, and its enduring legacy.

Twenty years ago, on Dec. 26, 2004, a tsunami arising in the Indian Ocean devastated areas of Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake centered west of northern Sumatra and the ensuing tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in a single day, with Indonesia suffering by far the ...

I watched a new documentary that set me at odds with December’s frenzied pace. For me, the month has evolved from a time of ...

The 2004 tsunami was not simply a natural disaster but a graphic exposure of the failure of the capitalist system, the ruling ...

Grim-faced rescuers were tying ropes to the stiff, jutting legs and arms of bloated corpses floating in the Andaman Sea, and bringing them to shore after an earthquake under the Indian Ocean ...

PHANG-NGA, Thailand: When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the south-western coast of Thailand in 2004, it claimed over 5,000 lives. But the local indigenous Moken people miraculously survived with ...

There were similar memorial ceremonies in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing town in Thailand that was among those most devastated by the tsunami in the country, as well Chennai, India, and Pereliya ...

People in Thailand should make disaster preparedness a habit to prevent massive casualties in the future, like those caused by the 2004 tsunami, says the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).