He made the remarks during an event last month to mark 20 years since the launch of Caritas Sri Lanka's tsunami recovery ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — People started gathering in prayer on Thursday and visiting the mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami ...

The resulting tsunami struck nations in the Indian Ocean including Thailand and Sri ... Boxing Day Tsunami—or the Asian Tsunami as the disaster came to be called—I was transferred to Indonesia.

The last widely devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean was that spawned by the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, which killed 36,000 people. Disaster officials in the region understandably have ...

At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day 2004, a major earthquake off the Western Coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a series of deadly tsunamis in the Indian Ocean ... disasters we have ever seen, ...

Preventing large-scale disasters calls for a high degree of international ... When the sea disappears Survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami said the water had receded for up to 2.5 kilometres ...

Three earthquakes struck Indonesia on Tuesday, with a 5.5-magnitude tremor hitting North Sumatra province in the morning, and ...

People in the Indonesian province of Aceh have paid tribute to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in northeastern ...

Show more In 2004 a massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami. The Indonesian city ... inhabitants of Banda Aceh who died in the disaster. It also serves as a shelter to ...

Disasters are tragic and frightening events, whether emerging from the climate crisis, armed conflict, or health catastrophe.

Learning from the ruins of disaster An Indonesian student who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is researching how the ruins of Tohoku's 2011 disaster are being used to prepare for the future ...