The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family’s house on the Andaman Sea coast of ...

A tsunami has struck Peru, destroying coastal areas, sinking fishing boats, and forcing the closure of 91 ports. With waves ...

Boxing Day, 2004. When the earthquake struck at 06:30 (01:00 GMT), I was on a ferry, headed towards Havelock – an island in ...

The Washington Emergency Management Division's response plan is the latest addition to the island's preparedness culture.

“We got into Aceh two days after the tsunami hit and none of us was prepared for what ... and in other cases by the effects ...

Rebekah Giles should have died in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Instead ... “She should not have lived,” Dr Tavakoli said. After enduring about 150 operations over two decades — ranging ...

Thanks to the GITEWS early warning system developed under the leadership of the GFZ from 2005 to 2008, it is now not only the ...

It was a few minutes after 8am on December 26, 2004 when the tsunami slammed into the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh. Shortly after the 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Aceh province, 30 ...

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no longer a threat of a tsunami after the quake, which struck at 0147 GMT. bur-pdw/cwl ...

“Then, as to be expected after a large earthquake, you’re then moved into a tsunami situation and you’re asked to take safe action, which is to move to the highest point around.” This ...

While the tsunami warning was canceled shortly after evacuations and transportation shut down, San Francisco forecasters said a small wave had been seen off the California coastline.