In 2003, Cummins and his colleagues at Geoscience Australia had used a computer simulation to map a magnitude 8.8 to 9.2 underwater earthquake that hit off the coast of central Sumatra in 1833 ...

For the first time since their inception, global volumes of SLLs declined significantly in 2023, slumping to $457 billion ...

At least 17 people have died after being swept away in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks that hit hilly villages on the Indonesian‘s main island of Java, officials said on Tuesday.

In 1024, Rajendra Chola dreamt up the grandest, riskiest, campaign ever planned by a medieval Indian ruler: an attack across ...

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

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A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

The Mentawai-Siberut segment in western Sumatra has the potential to trigger an earthquake ... and the preparation of evacuation routes along with maps and directions. The role of Destana can be ...

But, as can be seen on the map below, most of these communities are located in the ... According to his writings there were a number of Nestorian churches in West Sumatra around that time, located ...

El 26 de diciembre de 2004, el mundo padeció una de las tragedias más grandes de la historia moderna, cuando un terremoto submarino de magnitud 9,1, originado frente a la isla de Sumatra ...