Through collaborations with communities, Mercy Corps is supporting locally led disaster preparedness in the wake of the 2004 ...

At the time of the earthquake, there was no warning system in place in the Indian Ocean. But now, 1,400 stations globally cut warning times to just minutes after a tsunami wave forms.

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami generated by the quake of magnitude 9.1 was sourced off the Sumatran coast and was the third ...

the Indonesian province nearest to the earthquake epicenter. The lack of tsunami early warning systems in the Indian Ocean before the 2004 tsunami had made the disaster's impact worse. No seismic ...