Unlike tidal waves, tsunamis have nothing to do with gravitational pulls from celestial bodies. They result from natural ...

(Knowing when it's safe to return after a local quake is something still needing research, Bernard says, but as a benchmark, in the 2004 event tsunami waves pummeled the Sumatran coast for 12 ...

People in high-risk tsunami areas could soon be helped by an early-warning alarm system using sound waves that is being developed by scientists. Mathematicians think they have devised a way of ...

A tsunami is a series of waves generated by the sudden movement of the ocean surface, usually because of earthquakes under the sea floor. Tsunamis can also result from underwater landslides ...

Tsunamis (pronounced soo-ná-mees), also known as seismic sea waves (mistakenly called "tidal waves"), are a series of enormous waves created by an underwater disturbance such as an earthquake ...

Twenty years after the unprecedented 2004 catastophe, Petra Nemcova shares the painful yet powerful lessons she learned from ...

Dazed by the debacle in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) President and former Chief Minister Uddhav ...

BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 4 2024 (IPS) - This year’s World Tsunami Awareness Day presents a moment of reflection 20 years on from the catastrophic Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004. The tsunami resulted in ...

Now, a seismologist who was on duty at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii when the disaster struck has revealed to ...