On Dec. 26, 2004, the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake centered west of northern Sumatra and the ensuing tsunami killed ...

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustained the brunt of the damage. Indonesian officials estimated that ...

Are we better prepared today? - Where we are in Greece, 20 years after the deadliest tsunami in history, in the Indian Ocean ...

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 ...

There is a long history of research experiments to generate earthquakes, tsunamis and climate disasters. As Partick J. Kiger wrote Between 1946 and 1958 the United States detonated 23 nuclear weapons ...

Infrastructure in Aceh has been rebuilt and is now more resilient than before the tsunami struck. Early warning systems have ...

I don’t wish ever a disaster of this magnitude on anyone,” one woman said. But the 2004 Asian tsunami also made her realize ...

Twenty years ago today, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake unleashed a tsunami across the Indian Ocean region. Towering waves, some ...

At one particularly large site in Thailand's southern fishing town of Ban Nam Khem, a large illuminated sign read '20 Tsunami ...