The tsunami that rose from this great shifting of tectonic plates reached over 115 feet in some places and ultimately killed ...

Understanding of the Sumatran subduction zone and its hazards has increased since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...

This week marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the ...

The tsunami science world was small and mostly under the radar of mainstream media. There was plenty of interesting work ...

Many wept as they placed flowers at a mass grave in Ulee Lheue village, where more than 14,000 unidentified tsunami victims are buried ...

The IOD is commonly measured by an index (sometimes referred to as the Dipole Mode Index, or DMI) that is the difference between SST anomalies in two regions of the tropical Indian Ocean (see map): ...

We are streamlining some climate pages including removal of the Model Summary. From 10 December our climate information is available on the Southern Hemisphere monitoring and Southern Hemisphere ...