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 ...

Some 6,000 aftershocks followed. The tsunami that rose from this great shifting of tectonic plates reached over 115 feet in some places and ultimately killed about 230,000 people in Indonesia ...

The resulting tsunami unleashed waves more than 100 feet high and as fast as an airliner. Within hours, the tsunami had claimed nearly 230,000 human lives and displaced millions of people in 12 ...

A frame of a homemade video shows tourists caught by the first of six tsunami rolling towards Hat ... [+] Rai Lay Beach, near Krabi in southern Thailand, following a 9.2-Richter submarine ...

The alert just before 11 a.m. warned that "a tsunami with damaging waves and powerful current is possible." But about an hour later, the alert was canceled. It felt to some like emergency whiplash.

Chris Goldfinger, a geologist and seismologist, told CNN during an appearance this afternoon, that this type of earthquake had been unlikely to cause a tsunami. Goldfinger said that the quake ...

The National Weather Service’s National Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for the Oregon Coast on Thursday after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Northern California on Thursday ...

Officials have canceled an abrupt tsunami warning for the coastal areas of California and Oregon that was triggered by a preliminary magnitude 7.0 earthquake off the coast near Humboldt County on ...

REFILES to fix intro to read 'this week' sted 'next' as sent Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed ...

A rare tsunami warning issued for coastal areas in Northern California and Oregon was canceled following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Thursday morning. Gov. Gavin Newsom was briefed on the quake ...

Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves and her father to the sea ...