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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The quick thinking of a 10-year-old English girl, Tilly Smith, is credited with helping to save some 100 lives just before the ...

"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 ...

Rachel Hearson says it was a "miracle" she found a "pocket of air" and managed to survive the catastrophic tsunami that swept through the Indian Ocean, including the Phi Phi Islands in Thailand, on ...

The 2004 tsunami devastated the community in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and accelerated the end of the civil war in this deeply religious region. A handful of survivors, men and women, tell their odyssey ...

That’s how Vasily Titov, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Center for Tsunami Research described the aftermath of the largest tsunami on record, triggered by a 9.1 ...

"It's hard [for the younger generation] to understand," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy Soffie Modin, who was trapped for hours inside a home after ...

Rachel Hearson learned "I can be strong in a situation like this, and I can be there for other people if I'm needed," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy ...