The struggling Pacific Tsunami Museum is calling for community support to keep its doors open. HPR’s Savannah Harriman-Pote ...
For many tribal artists, there was a financial incentive to create objects that would appeal to non-Natives. But that’s ...
A keiki uses a machine that simulates tsunami waves coming from an earthquake while visiting the Pacific Tsunami Museum on Jan. 4, 2025. Former staff members are volunteering their time and raising ...
In a year filled with increasing and overwhelming natural disasters, Milwaukee Independent staff returned to their hometown ...
The majority of deaths from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were in Indonesia. But the island of Simeulue was largely spared. Researchers say this was partly due to folklore passed down through the ...
Dr. Jitendra Singh recalled the devastating tsunami that claimed over 230,000 lives globally, including 10,749 in India.
The tsunami of December 2004 devastated over two-thirds of Sri Lanka’s coastline. Over 50,000 lives were lost and more than 100,000 households were displaced.
Almost 1,000 kilometers off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves — a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster ...
Indonesia is developing a new offshore tsunami early warning system using GPS to monitor sea level changes. The country's National Disaster Mitigation Agency or BNPB says the dynamic system could ...
A man looks over the remains of Aceh after the tsunami.Credit: Jason South That shoved parts of the seafloor up by several metres along a 1200-kilometre stretch that ruptured at hypersonic speed ...
He cannot know for sure. The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami left so many bodies mouldering in the ruins of Banda Aceh that authorities dug several pits and filled them in haste, trying to prevent disease ...
The National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) says the government has pledged to assist with the replanting of cash crops wiped out by flooding from Cyclone Freda.