India's navy launched a submarine, a destroyer and a frigate simultaneously on Wednesday to counter China's expansion into ...

Having just learned about tsunamis in school, she was one of a few people to recognise the warning signs of the devastating wave that struck moments later on Boxing Day, 2004. The Indian Ocean tsunami ...

Japan, the United States, Australia and India are arranging to hold a meeting of their top diplomats in the United States on Jan 21, timing it around the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. president ...

Through collaborations with communities, Mercy Corps is supporting locally led disaster preparedness in the wake of the 2004 ...

The huge wave of water known as a tsunami, can be incredibly destructive as it surges onshore carrying all but the most solid objects inland.

A series of earthquakes struck southern Tibet on January 7, near the Nepal border. What exactly is an earthquake? Which countries are the most earthquake-prone? Why is the Himalayan region seismically ...

Japan, the United States, Australia and India are arranging to hold a meeting of their top diplomats in the United States on ...

The northward compression from the Indian Ocean plate is the result of the Indian plate's collision with the Eurasian plate.

In the last 75 years, more than 20 earthquakes above 6.0 magnitude have hit the Lhasa block, where lay the epicentre of this week’s quake in southern Tibet. Tuesday’s quake was caused by a northward ...

The Rotary Water Survival Box initiative started in Chelwood Village Hall in Somerset, in response to the Indian Ocean ...

The quake's epicenter is located in the Lhasa block in the southern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the center stated. It ...

The Indonesian government is planning to tighten housing construction standards nationwide in an effort to reduce the severe consequences of potential megathrust earthquakes, said a senior official at ...