Stuffed porpoise stomachs and blood custard for the rich, pickled carrots for the poor, and ale for all. Europeans in the ...

Hoosier Jim Morris was serving as the head of the World Food Programme, which had already been providing aid to the civil war ...

People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of modern history's worst ...

Through collaborations with communities, Mercy Corps is supporting locally led disaster preparedness in the wake of the 2004 ...

Within hours, the tsunami had claimed nearly 230,000 human lives and displaced millions of people in 12 countries. Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ...

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami generated by the quake of magnitude 9.1 was sourced off the Sumatran coast and was the third ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark ...

On December 26, 2004, the Nicobarese faced an unprecedented catastrophe as the Indian Ocean tsunami, triggered by the massive 9.1-9.3 Mw Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, ravaged their islands. The rupture ...

At 7:58 am local time on December 26, 2004, an earthquake of moment magnitude M w 9.1–9.3 ruptured a over 1,500 kilometers long section of the seafloor offshore to the west the island of ...

26 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The resulting tsunami struck nations in the Indian Ocean including Thailand and Sri Lanka and reached as far as Africa, killing an estimated 220,000-plus ...

Little did I know that major tsunami would occur less than two weeks later, on Boxing Day, Dec. 26, and it would strike an ocean we usually didn’t think much about when it comes to tsunami risk.