Twenty years ago the devastating Boxing Day Tsunami swept across Asia, causing death and destruction. And scientists are ...

Tectonic map, megathrust zones, and seismic gaps Indonesia is prone to disasters due to its location in a tectonically active zone where four major plates — Indo-Australian, Eurasian ...

Indonesia also has several megathrust zones—areas along tectonic plate boundaries prone to generating large earthquakes like the 2004 Aceh event. There are 13 identified megathrust zones near ...

Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed! n Dec. 26, 2004, at ...

There’s a 37% chance that a dreaded “megathrust” earthquake will rock Oregon within the next 50 years. How is the Beaver ...

Disaster-related deaths exceeded 220 in the 2016 quake disaster in Kumamoto Prefecture and topped 240 in the Noto Peninsula ...

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A two-minute silence was observed across Sri Lanka today (December 26) from 9:25 a.m. to 9:27 a.m. to honor the memory ...

The 9.1 magnitude earthquake induced Tsunami was first felt in the island’s eastern coast before moving south resulting in ...

On Sunday, December 26, twenty years ago, Indonesia and 13 countries adjacent to the Indian Ocean witnessed a tsunami, which ...