Secretary of State Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan as the Trump administration ...

On his first full day as secretary of state, Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from a group of countries known as the Quad: the United States plus India, Japan and Australia, representing ...

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

warned in October 2003 and again in August 2004 of the danger of a giant earthquake and tsunami centred on Sumatra and urged an extension of the tsunami warning system to the Indian Ocean.

In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed more than 220,000 people across 12 countries. Ali Rogin ...

Twenty years ago, on 26 December 2004, an earthquake off the coast of northern ... Less than 24 hours after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami hit, Indian Air Force Group Captain Erat Krishnaprasad ...

SINGAPORE: Two decades after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami claimed more ... events Experts said the Boxing Day catastrophe in 2004 was a “huge wakeup call” that accelerated research ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet high, killing an estimated 230,000 people. Twenty years later, people gathered ...

the Indonesian province nearest to the earthquake epicenter. The lack of tsunami early warning systems in the Indian Ocean before the 2004 tsunami had made the disaster's impact worse. No seismic ...

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Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries.