Tsunami Almost Wipes Out Remote Indian Island
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PORT BLAIR, India  - Rescuers began reaching  India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands on Tuesday, two days  after passage of a devastating tsunami, to find barely a third  of residents on one were still alive.
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Waving a flag made of his clothes, a tsunami victim dressed only in his underwear was rescued after surviving alone for 25 days on a flattened island in India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, authorities said Saturday.
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A video image shows devastated house after Sunday&#39;s tsunami on the Andaman Nicobar Island December 28, 2004. On the island of Chowra in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, not far from the epicentre of Sunday&#39;s
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The tsunami split coral reefs in India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands chain, burying them under sand deposits and threatening the entire marine habitat in the area, researchers said Wednesday.
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Entire villages were wiped out in the tiny Andaman and Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal. They lost more than 3000 residents in the disaster - 12 per cent of their population.
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Tsunami survivors on the isolated Andaman and Nicobar islands told harrowing tales Thursday of going without food after fleeing mammoth waves that smashed their villages
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Relief efforts are under way around the northern rim of the Indian Ocean, where tsunamis devastated low-lying villages and towns Sunday, killing thousands.
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A huge earthquake hit southern Asia on Sunday, setting off a tsunami that drowned hundreds in Sri Lanka and India, sent Indonesians rushing to high ground and washed
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Military ships rushed to get desperately needed aid to the ravished coast of Sumatra island on Thursday, as villages strewn with bloating corpses remained isolated for a fifth day after a huge earthquake and tsunami devastated
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Wailing relatives gathered around dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed about 2,000 people.
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One of the world's last remaining Stone Age hunter-gatherer tribes survived the Asian tsunami, but the damage caused to their habitat may eventually wipe them out, experts said.
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At least 3,000 people died in the Andaman and Nicobar islands and 30,000 people are missing after five villages in the archipelago's south were swept away by a tsunami, officials said.
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Aftershocks continued to rattle the Andaman and Nicobar islands far off India&#39;s eastern coast, as authorities rushed drinking water, food and medicines to thousands of survivors of massive tidal waves that devoured at least
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PADANG, Indonesia - The ground shook so hard that Yulinar had to grab a table to steady herself. Minutes later, she heard a warning crackling over the speakers of the neighborhood mosque - a tsunami could crash into her fishing village on Indonesia's Sumatra island at any minute.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in a tsunami  that slammed into coasts from India to Indonesia topped 21,000  on Monday as rescuers scoured the sea for missing tourists and  soldiers raced to recover bodies amid growing fears of disease.
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India&#39;s dwindling aboriginal population in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands is safe as most lived in jungles, far away from the coast hit by a devastating
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What may be the strongest earthquake in 40 years has struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Sunday, 7 am local, sparking deadly tsunami waves that have impacted as far away as India.