Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people across a dozen ...
Boxing Day, marks the 20th year since one of the world's most significant natural disasters, the Sumatra earthquake.
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history.
Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across ...
20 years later, one of the Matara train’s carriages sits outside the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing ...
A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting" – two decades on ...
Compared to neighboring Texas, earthquakes are more of a rarity in Louisiana. But since 1930, dozens quakes registering 0.5 ...
Experts said the Boxing Day catastrophe in 2004 was a “huge wakeup call” that accelerated research, education and technology to better understand natural disasters and try to mitigate their impact.
Even though 20 years have passed, survivors in Indonesia are still grieving loved ones they lost to the giant wave that ...
The USGS says a magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck just off the coast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean. The quake on ...
A two minutes’ silence will be observed island-wide today (26 December) on National Safety Day from 9.25 a.m. to 9.27 a.m. in ...