Our last stop was Simeulue Island off the coast of Banda Aceh, Sumatra. It was the closest population center to the 2004 epicenter and the first tsunami surges arrived only eight minutes after the ...

The giant waves that engulfed the impoverished province on the northern tip of Sumatra island on December 26, 2004, killing tens ... was born because of the tsunami. At the time, foreign countries ...

A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and tsunami off the west coast of northern Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, killed more than 283,000 people and displaced over 1 million more across 10 countries in Asia and ...