SRI LANKA, — This December marks the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in ...

Now, a seismologist who was on duty at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii when the disaster struck has revealed to Newsweek the inside story of how events played out that fateful day, as his ...

Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn—now with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—was on ...

This year marks 20 years since the devastating Indian Ocean Tsunami that left more than 220,000 people dead or missing from Southeast Asia to East Africa. A commemorative event was held in Thailand to ...

The earthquake which rocked ... that triggered the Indian Ocean 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and alerted the world to the threat of another large quake in the Sumatra region of the Indian Ocean 10 ...

The drills simulated a repeat of the earthquake which struck the coast of Sumatra island on Dec 26, 2004. Read more at ...

After the 2004 tsunami, mangroves in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are still changing. A mass mortality of mangroves was ...

A mock scenario simulating a 9.3 magnitude earthquake in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia (where the 2004 Tsunami occurred), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami, in which a simulated wave will hit all ...

It seems ridiculous, but I’d never heard of a tsunami. It wasn’t a word I’d ever had to say, until Boxing Day, 2004.

The drills simulated a repeat of the magnitude 9.2 earthquake which struck off the west coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on December 26, 2004, sparking giant waves that killed over 200,000 ...