Through collaborations with communities, Mercy Corps is supporting locally led disaster preparedness in the wake of the 2004 ...

Exactly 20 years ago, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake occurred on Dec. 26 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The resulting tsunami struck nations in the Indian Ocean including Thailand and Sri Lanka ...

PIKIRAN RAKYAT – Antisipasi gempa megathrust perlu dilakukan semua pihak. Upaya mitigasi harus diupayakan pemerintah, BMKG, ...

The earthquake triggered a tsunami alert, impacting some 500 ... magnitude earthquake struck far out at sea, off West Sumatra province, Indonesia, in 2016 [File: Darren Whiteside/Reuters] Rina ...

Triggered by a massive undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the tsunami unleashed a series of towering waves that ravaged coastal regions across 14 countries. As we approach ...

The huge wave of water known as a tsunami, can be incredibly destructive as it surges onshore carrying all but the most solid objects inland.

The tsunami -- generated by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western island of Sumatra -- carried in its path a wall of debris including boats, cars, and bodies. Some, like lecturer Reza ...

On 26 December 2004 at 07:59 local time, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia ... to 23,000 atomic bombs. The tsunami waves it triggered spread across ...

Oceanside cities in Sumatra were the ... People in Indonesia reported they saw animals fleeing for high ground several minutes before the tsunami arrived there. Very few animal bodies were found ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake, off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggered a tsunami that killed around 230,000 people across a dozen countries ...

The tsunami was triggered by the longest faultline ... The epicenter was located 150 miles from Sumatra's coast. Indonesia is a vast archipelago nation on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc ...