The quick thinking of a 10-year-old English girl, Tilly Smith, is credited with helping to save some 100 lives just before the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 struck the island of Phuket in Thailand. The ...

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Almost 1,000 kilometers off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves—a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is as ...

“You kind of imagine a tsunami will come in like a roar and be loud, but it was very eerily calm. Just steady and relentless,” she said When content creator Meghan McTavish saw recent tsunami alerts ...

Thousands of workers, and even the elephants, are losing their resort jobs as a result of the aftermath of the deadly tsunami that ravaged Thailand's coastline and other areas of Southeast Asia Dec.

Thailand's Andaman Coast, which suffered extensive casualties and damage, has been a vast construction site for much of the past year. The laborers — all tsunami survivors — start at first light and ...

The island of Phuket on the Indian Ocean coast of Thailand is a major tourist destination, with inviting white sand beaches and warm sunny skies. Unfortunately for those living and visiting there to ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (Reuters) - Suvadee Sukkasem is still searching for her son who vanished when the Indian Ocean tsunami turned this tropical paradise into a mass grave for thousands of Thais and ...

THUNG WA, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After the tsunami pounded Thailand’s Andaman Sea coast a decade ago, the ethnic Moklen fishing communities that have lived here for generations buried ...

I visit the Tsunami Memorial in Khao Lak Thailand to reflect on the Khao Lak Tsunami 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami tragedy in Thailand and around the Indian Ocean. I'm sure we have all seen footage from the ...

The 2004 tsunami killed more than 5,000 people in Thailand, according to official figures, with 3,000 missing. Now the country's two DART buoys are linked by satellite to a nationwide network of 130 ...