On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, the coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, was filled with thousands of people ...

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 ...

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

A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami, according to EM-DAT, a recognised global disaster database. The worst affected area was northern Sumatra, where more than 120,000 people ...

On 26 December 2004 at 07:59 local time, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra ... equivalent to 23,000 atomic bombs. The tsunami waves it triggered spread across ...

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

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

An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 has struck off the northwest coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island today (May 14). The tremor has occurred at a depth of about 15 km. Sri Lanka’s National Early Tsunami ...

On the fateful day of December 26, 2004, when a massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra triggered a devastating tsunami, Mwalola and his colleagues sensed the danger and decided to stay away from ...

Officials said there are no tsunami threats to the state. However, residents who live near the area may feel aftershocks.

PHANG-NGA, Thailand: When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the south-western coast of Thailand in 2004, it claimed over 5,000 lives. But the local indigenous Moken people miraculously survived with ...