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 ...

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 ...

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

The drills simulated a repeat of the magnitude 9.2 earthquake which struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on ... watched -- were part of a tsunami summit of experts organised ...

A 2004 tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia. WATCH: The scale of the 2004 ...

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 ...

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

It would certainly explain the displacement of water and the generation of waves up to 5m high that then inundated the nearby coastlines of Java and Sumatra ... Fears of new tsunami as volcano ...

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 ...