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 ...
Exactly 20 years ago, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake occurred on Dec. 26 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The resulting tsunami struck nations in the Indian Ocean including Thailand and Sri Lanka ...
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 ...
Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...
On his first full day as secretary of state, Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from a group of countries known as ...
Some tsunami scenarios are way worse than the waves from the earthquake off Lisbon, Portugal that hit Florida 269 years ago. Twenty years after the catastrophic Boxing Day Tsunami killed some 230,000 ...
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 ...
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