Indonesian officials say rescuers have recovered 16 bodies under tons of mud and rocks or that were swept away in flash floods that hit mountainside villages on Sumatra Island. Six people are still ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 earthquake which struck the coast of Sumatra island on Dec 26, 2004. Read more at ...

December 26 this year marks 20 years since the monstrous Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, which had been generated by a massive earthquake near Sumatra measuring 9.3 in ... earthquake measuring 8.8 has ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Jakarta, Nov 6 (IANS) A 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's eastern Papua province on Wednesday, the country's meteorology and geophysics agency reported. The tremor ...

A mild earthquake just outside of Moncton on Monday night was not a rare occurrence, according to a federal scientist. Data from Earthquakes Canada shows that a 2.3-magnitude earthquake hit at ...

EAST FLORES, Indonesia: A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted again on Tuesday (Nov 5), blowing an ash column into the sky a day after it spewed fireballs on nearby villages that killed nine people.