"It's hard [for the younger generation] to understand that it wasn't so easy," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy Soffie Modin was on holiday on Koh Phi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two decades ago, as thousands of vacationers scattered across the sunlit shores of Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka on Christmas ...

Tsunami-hit nations will next week commemorate the more than 220,000 people who died in the Boxing Day disaster two decades ago, when huge waves tore into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On December 26th, 2004, a whopping 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia’s island of Sumatra. In the ...

On December 26, 2004, a powerful undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered the deadliest tsunami in recorded history. Within hours, towering waves struck 14 countries, ...

December 26 marked 20 years since a massive tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, leaving death and destruction in its wake on a vast scale in country after country. Officially, an estimated 227,000 ...

On December 26, 2004, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on the Indian Ocean’s floor touched off a series of devastating tidal waves through the Bay of Bengal and as far as East Africa. Walls of water, some ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) -- The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family's house on the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand when her mom, sensing something ...

BANDA ACEH, December 14, (UNHCR) - After a massive three-month emergency relief operation in Indonesia's Aceh province in the immediate aftermath of the 26 December 2004 tsunami, the UN refugee agency ...

Here is some background information about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. On December 26, 2004, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.1 struck the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. National Centers ...

The world's deadliest tsunami hit nations around the Indian Ocean two decades ago before social media platforms flourished, but they have since transformed how we understand and respond to disasters - ...

Two decades ago, as thousands of vacationers scattered across the sunlit shores of Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka on Christmas getaways, a mighty force rattled the depths of the ocean floor just ...