NAGAPATTINAM, India (AP) — He was a young boy playing cricket with friends on a beach around 9:30 in the morning when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake violently shook the earth, and a tsunami struck from ...

The world's deadliest tsunami hit nations around the Indian Ocean two decades ago before social media platforms flourished, but they have since transformed how we understand and respond to disasters - ...

The deadly tsunami that swamped India's southern coast two decades ago was a one-off disaster, but storms that are growing ever more intense spark panic each time howling gales whip up waves.

NAGAPATTINAM: Pointing to the havoc Cyclone Ditwah brought about on several of the already dilapidated ‘tsunami houses’ in ...

SERUTHUR, India (Reuters) - Saranya was only nine when the giant waves hit her family's village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Boxing Day in 2004. "The water took away everything," said ...

"I'm praying to the gods that they should take care of them in heaven," she said. Tsunami escape drills were to be held to demonstrate the readiness of Tamil Nadu's large fishing community. But doubts ...

Houses destroyed by the 2004 tsunami still lie abandoned in Akkaraipettai village in India's Tamil Nadu state - Copyright AFP R. Satish BABU Houses destroyed by the ...