Now, a seismologist who was on duty at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii when the disaster struck has revealed to Newsweek the inside story of how events played out that fateful day, as his ...

SRI LANKA, — This December marks the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in ...

Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn—now with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—was on ...

National Geographic’s latest docuseries brings viewers to the forefront of the 2004 tsunami and the people who lived through ...

This year marks 20 years since the devastating Indian Ocean Tsunami that left more than 220,000 people dead or missing from Southeast Asia to East Africa. A commemorative event was held in Thailand to ...

The intervention against the deadly disease could backfire unless the U.S. military learns from past experience.

Louis Mullan, who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, has shared the story of losing his parents in new documentary ...

The drills simulated a repeat of the magnitude 9.2 earthquake which struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island ...

On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake off northern Sumatra island triggered a tsunami with waves as high as 17.4 meters that swept over vulnerable coastal areas of ...

Ray Martin returns to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in a special showing how devastated communities have rebuilt two decades after the Boxing Day tsunami.

But setting up a truly effective warning system, one that can alert coastlines even as close to a tsunami's birthplace as northwest Sumatra was last December, is a daunting task. In talking to a ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter scale occurred at 1.19 pm on Saturday (Dec 30) off the northwest coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, according to the Malaysian ...