But now, 1,400 stations globally cut warning times to just minutes after a tsunami wave forms. Experts said the lack of a properly coordinated warning system in 2004 had made the disaster's impact ...

(Knowing when it's safe to return after a local quake is something still needing research, Bernard says, but as a benchmark, in the 2004 event tsunami waves pummeled the Sumatran coast for 12 ...

Hear powerful survivor stories from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. It’s been 20 years since one of history’s deadliest natural disasters. Discover how tragedy defined a generation.

Tsunami 2004: The Day the Wave Hit 20 years on, this minute-by-minute account reveals how the most destructive tsunami in modern times unfolded, featuring powerful eyewitness testimonies of ...

As an eight-year-old boy Pirun Kla-Talay was orphaned by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Now he makes his living ... "As an island boy, I knew the sound of waves," he said.

A tsunami can move hundreds of miles per hour in the open ocean and smash into land with waves as high as 100 feet or more. From the area where the tsunami originates, waves travel outward in all ...

Presents a minute-by-minute account of the most destructive tsunami in modern times ... present in Thailand and Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004.