The losses are estimated at between US$ 6 and US$ 7 billion. In 2004, they ranged from US$ 1.5 to US$ 2 billion. The recovery ...

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 ...

Few communities are as familiar with catastrophe as the Acehnese, who endured decades of armed conflict and the 2004 tsunami, the deadliest natural disaster of the modern era.

JAKARTA: Indonesia's government is resisting growing pressure to declare a national disaster over devastating floods that ...

When a 9.1-magnitude quake caused a tsunami that smashed into coastal areas on December 26, 2004, killing more than 220,000 people, broadcasters, newspapers and wire agencies were the main media ...

"I could not ignore them," Thuleewan “Kimmy” Boonyarattana tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy Thuleewan “Kimmy” Boonyarattana escaped the devastating 2004 ...

Twenty years after losing her boyfriend in the 2004 tsunami, Nemcova found joy again through her global philanthropy and life at home with her family Mary Beth Koeth Growing up, Petra Nemcova had ...

As severe weather continues to rage, more than a thousand people are dead, while millions are affected across vast swathes of ...