The huge wave of water known as a tsunami, can be incredibly destructive as it surges onshore carrying all but the most solid objects inland.

Tearful mourners gathered Thursday across Asia to commemorate the more than 220,000 lives lost in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The disaster devastated coastlines from Indonesia to Somalia and ...

Vasily Titov, a scientist at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental ... an island in the centre of the Indonesian archipelago, was struck by an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands.

On Dec. 26, 2004, one of the largest recorded earthquakes struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra ... since the Indian Ocean calamity, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center started providing ...

The tsunami was triggered by the longest ... The epicenter was located 150 miles from Sumatra's coast. Indonesia is a vast archipelago nation on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc of intense ...

while the sirens will signal the likely risk of a tsunami. Indonesia, which straddles the seismically active area known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, is one of the world’s most disaster-prone ...

Indonesia is a vast archipelago nation on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. The tsunami was ...

The tsunami displaced more than 1.5 million people, and more than 100,000 houses were destroyed in Aceh alone, the Indonesian province nearest to the earthquake epicenter. The lack of tsunami ...

That changed the day after Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian ... of the Pacific Ocean, which at the time was the only region monitored for tsunami threats.

The tsunami was triggered by the longest ... The epicentre was located 150 miles from Sumatra's coast. Indonesia is a vast archipelago nation on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc of intense ...

Faultline rupture - The tsunami was triggered by the ... was located 150 miles from Sumatra's coast. Indonesia is a vast archipelago nation on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc of intense seismic ...