Florida Today4d
Is Florida ready for a tsunami?
As if Florida needs another type of natural disaster to worry about. That said, scientists warned for decades a tsunami could jet our way at more than 500 mph. It's happened before. Few were ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore10d
20 years after Indian Ocean tsunami, some displaced Sri Lankan survivors are still waiting for housing
COLOMBO: Twenty years after the massive Indian Ocean tsunami wreaked havoc on Sri Lanka, some survivors are still trying to pick up the pieces. Those living in poorly-constructed settlements ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore11d
2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: SCDF responders recall two-week overseas mission
Singapore's Civil Defence Force was among the first to respond to the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The two-week operation remains the SCDF's largest overseas mission to date. In total ...
6abc News10d
Tears mark 20 years since Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 230,000 people
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of ...
eNCA10d
'We couldn't find their bodies': Indonesian tsunami survivors mourn the dead
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 ...
manilatimes10d
Tears, prayers as Asia mourns tsunami dead 20 years later
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Tearful mourners prayed on Thursday as ceremonies were held across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who were killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the ...
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Tears, prayers as Asia mourns tsunami dead 20 years on
ACEH PROVINCE - Tearful mourners prayed and lit candles Thursday at ceremonies across Asia to remember the 220,000 people killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian ...
The Independent6d
Peru’s coastline battered by tsunami-like waves one day after country declares environmental emergency
The extreme weather phenomenon coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami which struck India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia, among other nations ...
Al Jazeera English19d
Magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes near Vanuatu capital
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Honolulu said it had observed waves after the quake but later lifted the threat of tsunami for neighbouring islands, including Fiji, the Kermadec Islands ...
WRAL12d
20 years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, a boy found in the mud embraces being known as 'Baby 81'
KURUKKAL MADAM, Sri Lanka (AP) — Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle ...
Science News25d
The 2004 tsunami killed hundreds of thousands. Are we better prepared now?
Twenty years ago, the seafloor west of Indonesia abruptly pushed upward as a deep undersea fault, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates meet, slipped. The upward shove violently shifted the ...