Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...
The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...
Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...
The deficiencies of the Indian Ocean warning system were exposed in 2018 when a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami killed 1,200 people on the island of Sulawesi. None of the tsunami buoys that ...
“The devastation was unimaginable,” said Arianto Andrian, describing what he experienced in Indonesia as he recalled the catastrophic Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that struck the shores of ...
On his first full day as secretary of state, Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from a group of countries known as ...
The extreme weather phenomenon coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami which struck India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia, among other nations ...
India's navy launched a submarine, a destroyer and a frigate simultaneously on Wednesday to counter China's expansion into ...
The December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami led to an increased awareness about earthquake preparedness among Kathmandu residents. Since then, Nepal has experienced one major and many ...
A magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck Japan’s Kyushu region late Monday night, prompting brief tsunami advisories for coastal areas in Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures. The waves, initially projected ...