Boxing Day, marks the 20th year since one of the world's most significant natural disasters, the Sumatra earthquake.

Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without ...

First responders said Thursday's earthquake and tsunami warning was a reminder to prepare for the next big quake. That ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting" – two decades on ...

past disasters fading from memory until the next big one hits. “It’s like a time-bomb,” says Jackson. The earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria in 2023 were even bigger than the Bam quake ...

Sales of catastrophe bonds surged to $17.7 billion this year, up 7% from last year's record to bring the total market to ...

Missouri and Tennessee saw a string of small earthquakes triggered along the New Madrid fault line. It raises the question ...

At around 1 am local time on 26 December, a seismometer in Australia detected a massive 9.1 magnitude earthquake off ... The tsunami was the deadliest natural disaster in the 21st century and ...

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the ...

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A preliminary 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Clayton in Contra Costa County late Tuesday night, according to the United ...

More than 200,000 lives were claimed when powerful earthquake triggered a huge tsunami tidal wave on Boxing Day 2004 ...