Relief organizations struggled to reach those in need Tuesday, one day after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Sumatra, Indonesia, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 112 people, officials said. Another 502 were reported missing.
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on Sunday but did not trigger a tsunami, the National Weather Service said.
Five years after a tsunami the physical scars are gone, but the emotional ones remain. CNN's Atika Shubert reports
Crowds attended prayers and other ceremonies across Asia on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami that killed about 250,000 people in 14 countries five years ago.
Fitrie Ani was three months pregnant when she heard neighbors in her corner of Banda Aceh screaming: "The sea is rising! The sea is rising!"
CNN's Dan Rivers talks to a survivor of the Asian tsunami five years after it hit.
Four years since a 9.0-magnitude earthquake spawned massive walls of water that swept across the Indian Ocean, leaving more than 230,000 dead according to a United Nations estimate, improvements can be seen in many of the devastated areas, humanitarian groups said.
Hiding under a blanket in the back of a car at a police checkpoint. Hopping on boats instead of staying on a road. Constantly looking over your shoulder, knowing that at any moment you -- and those with you -- face the possibility of imprisonment, torture, even death.
CNN's Thelma Gutierrez asks Thomas Tighe about his worries that aid won't reach those in need in Myanmar.
Aerial view of the homes and villages destroyed in Myanmar by Cyclone Nargis.
A magnitude-6.3 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia on Sunday could trigger a tsunami on coasts near its epicenter, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
Three years after the disaster, normality is creeping back in Banda Aceh, but the underlying economy hasn't yet healed
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Following are links to the videos that appear on CNN this week, relating to coverage of the Asian tsunami, one year after the event.
As tsunami waters roared through his Banda Aceh home last December, Nasir grabbed his two sisters and sought shelter in the local mosque.
The December 26 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami prompted an unprecedented flood of aid pledges to the affected regions, particularly to the hard-hit Aceh province of Indonesia.
Almost a year after the Indian Ocean tsunami slammed ashore on December 26, 2004, experts have finished installing stage one of a high-tech early warning system.
A strong earthquake has struck off the northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, shaking buildings and triggering some panic.
Painful memories have been stirred Sunday, six months after the Asian tsunami that killed more than 176,000 people and triggered the world's largest humanitarian mission.
A moderate earthquake rumbled off the western coast of Indonesia's Aceh province Tuesday morning, Indonesian officials said.
An earthquake of at least magnitude 8.2 struck off the coast of Indonesia on Monday, an aftershock of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the region December 26 killing at least 175,000 people.
Former U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton have visited devastated Sri Lankan coasts on their third stop in a four-nation tour of the tsunami-stricken region.
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A lack of water is preventing firefighters in Indonesia's tsunami-devastated city of Banda Aceh from getting close to a raging blaze.
Indonesia's president joined tsunami survivors crowding mosques in ravaged Aceh province to mark Islam's holiest day, pledging to rebuild the region.
The World Health Organization has said that nearly all the people affected by the tsunami that hit southern Asia last month will suffer some form of psychosocial trauma.
The U.S. military has begun helping Indonesia repair more than a dozen C-130 cargo planes, crippled by the U.S. ban on military sales to Indonesia, so they can be used in tsunami relief operations.
The Indonesian military has ordered troops to escort aid workers into the country's tsunami-stricken Aceh province because of alleged rebel activity, according to The Associated Press.
High tides have swamped parts of India's Andaman and Nicobar islands for a second night, sending hundreds of residents on to higher ground.
As tsunami aid continues to pour into the badly hit northern Indonesian cities of Banda Aceh and Meulaboh, concerns continue to grow over security issues in the region.
As many as 800 bodies are being exhumed from mass graves in Thailand in a bid to help identify thousands of people still listed as missing following the December 26 tsunamis.
A U.S. Navy helicopter participating in tsunami relief efforts crashed on approach to the airfield at Banda Aceh early Monday, with all 10 aboard suffering minor injuries, a Navy spokesman said.
Two weeks after a tsunami ravaged coastal areas of the Indian Ocean, a new video has brought a different perspective to the horror of the disaster.
An international team of relief workers is helping Indonesian troops clear out mud and debris from the remains of a desperately needed hospital in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
High-ranking international officials have toured regions hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunamis to see firsthand the devastation that has prompted one of the world's biggest relief efforts.
South Asian countries will need $977 million in cash assistance over the next six months to recover from the tsunami disaster, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has said the United States is throwing its financial and military weight into southern Asian relief efforts not to gain favor in the Islamic world but because it's what Americans do.
Ships unloaded thousands of tons of food at docks on Sumatra's east coast, but relief planners struggled to finds ways to get the supplies to the Indonesian Island's west coast and the 800,000 people who survived the disaster.
A massive relief effort is underway to remove corpses in the Indonesian province of Aceh but rivers are still strewn with bodies more than a week after the tsunami disaster, CNN Senior Asian Correspondent Mike Chinoy reported.
Relief workers are struggling to reach areas cut off by last week's Indian Ocean tsunamis, as the death toll mounts and hope of finding thousands of missing people fades.
Hopes of finding the thousands still missing from last week's massive earthquake and deadly tsunami glimmers weakly as desperately needed aid finally reached areas that had been cut off by the devastation.
Indonesia says it has set a goal of rehabilitating within one year the survivors of last Sunday's devastating earthquake and tsunami in its northern Sumatra province of Aceh.
U.N. relief workers have arrived in Indonesia's Aceh province to find devastation in the region closest to the epicenter of the earthquake that spawned Sunday's killer tsunamis.
Follow CNN's video coverage of the tsunami disaster.
The number of dead in Indonesia has risen five-fold to 27,174, almost doubling the death toll from the massive underwater earthquake and the equally massive tsunami that followed it.
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