But now, 1,400 stations globally cut warning times to just minutes after a tsunami wave forms. Experts said the lack of a properly coordinated warning system in 2004 had made the disaster's impact ...

In potentially vulnerable parts of the Pacific region, from Japan to Hawaii to Alaska ... but as a benchmark, in the 2004 event tsunami waves pummeled the Sumatran coast for 12 hours following ...

On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake off northern Sumatra island triggered a tsunami with waves as high as 17.4 meters that swept over vulnerable coastal areas of ...