This case gets much stranger after the tsunami hits. In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster, survivors in Indonesia and Thailand reported seeing silvery discs, bright lights, and silent ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On December 26th, 2004, a whopping 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia’s island of Sumatra. In the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People visit the Ulee Lheue mass cemetery, where the victims of 2004 tsunami and earthquake that struck Aceh are buried. Andri ...

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 ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Sumatra, causing a massive wave that devastated Asian coastal communities across thousands of miles. Some 230,000 people died ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — 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. Asnani, ...