Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On December 26th, 2004, a whopping 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia’s island of Sumatra. In the ...

Twenty years ago, the seafloor west of Indonesia abruptly pushed upward as a deep undersea fault, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates meet, slipped. The upward shove violently shifted the seawater ...

JAKARTA: Indonesia's government is resisting growing pressure to declare a national disaster over devastating floods that killed hundreds of people and laid waste to parts of Sumatra island. The ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand — The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family's house on the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand when her mom, sensing something ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, May 23 -- The Indonesian official who oversees earthquake and tsunami reconstruction has charged that government funding for recovery after the December disaster has been delayed ...

Tsunamis are devastating natural disasters caused by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or landslides that send massive waves crashing onto coastlines. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami remains ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - In daily games and quizzes with his children, Hardimansyah slips in these questions: Where's your rucksack? What can you do with a candle? Where do you run to if I'm not with you ...