On Dec. 26, 2004, one of the largest recorded earthquakes struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, heaving a piece ... outreach and produce inundation maps for evacuation planning and signage.

The 2004 tsunami was not simply a natural disaster but a graphic exposure of the failure of the capitalist system, the ruling ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, two Australian surfers stumbled across the "perfect" wave on the remote Indonesian island of Nias, located just off the western coast of Sumatra ... Nias on the map, speculating ...

Filming the BBC's landmark series Asia took its crew on a four-year-long odyssey from the open ocean to the "roof of the ...

Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it ...

Indonesia has several subduction zones that stretch from the tip of Sumatra Island to Papua. The latest research conducted ... and the preparation of evacuation routes along with maps and directions.

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 ...

New Zealand is one of the few places on Earth where you can touch a fault – the Alpine Fault, on the South Island, where ...

More than 200 Rohingya came ashore over the weekend in Indonesia's Aceh province, an official said on Monday, amid growing numbers of arrivals by sea of the stateless population in the Southeast Asian ...

Huge death toll A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami, according to EM-DAT, a recognized global disaster database. The worst affected area was northern Sumatra, where more than ...

More than 200 Rohingya arrived on the evening of Jan 5 in the West Peureulak region of East Aceh on Sumatra island, on the western side of Indonesia, said Aceh’s fishing community chief Miftach ...