The resulting tsunami unleashed waves more than 100 feet high and as fast as an airliner. Within hours, the tsunami had claimed nearly 230,000 human lives and displaced millions of people in 12 ...

triggered a tsunami that killed around 230,000 people across a dozen countries, reaching as far as East Africa. Waves towering up to 100 feet high swept away nearly everything — and everyone ...

the sea produced waves of up to 100 feet. Yet there were no warning sirens, resulting in the deaths of nearly 130,000 people here. Now the city has a new quake detection and tsunami warning system ...

The tsunami was triggered by the longest faultline ... It created waves more than 30 metres (100 feet) high, releasing energy equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs and causing widespread ...

The movement of trillions of tons of rock resulted in the largest, most deadly tsunami on record. Oceanside cities in Sumatra were the first to be hit — a 100-foot-tall rolling mountain of water ...

Some sections of Northern California's coast are considered vulnerable to tsunamis. Here's where those locations are and how ...

Twenty years have now passed since a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated communities ... the seafloor off Indonesia, sending a 100-foot wall of water towards communities around ...

On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a huge tsunami with waves up to 30 meters (100 feet) high. Only a rudimentary warning system was in place at the ...