Twenty-one years after the 2004 tsunami almost wiped out Ban Nam Khem, the small fishing village is coping with changing ...

At the time this post was last updated,the estimated death toll from the South Asian tsunami exceeded 120,000. First things, first. If you want to give money for food, medical care and other basic ...

In June 2001, I spent two weeks in southern Peru as part of an International Tsunami Survey Team (ITST). A magnitude 8.4 earthquake occurred two weeks before we arrived, and our purpose was to learn ...

PORTLAND -- The tsunami that killed 230,000 people in 2004 was the biggest in the Indian Ocean in about 600 years, and it has lessons for the Pacific Northwest, geologists said Wednesday. Geologists ...

SRI LANKA, — This December marks the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the ...

Following the Tuesday, July 29 tsunami advisory for coastal Clatsop County and much of the West Coast, government officials are saying that communication was key but can be approved upon. Actions ...

While government and relief agencies around the world continue to funnel humanitarian aid to the victims of the Asian tsunami, multinational businesses are scrambling to assess their exposure to ...

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Alex Chadwick talks with Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday, about what scientists have learned from last December's tsunami that devastated shores all across the Indian Ocean ...

In 2004, Aceh was hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2025, Indonesia’s most disaster-aware province was among the ...

Mar. 11—March 11 marks the 10th anniversary of the historic Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which are still sending ripples across the Pacific in the form of heightened awareness and initiatives to ...