“We had never heard the word ‘tsunami’ before, and I had no idea what was happening.” Arianto was in Banda Aceh, the closest major city to the epicenter of the magnitude 9.62 earthquake off the west ...

Japan’s Meteorological Agency withdrew a tsunami advisory after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of southwest Japan. The quake struck shortly after 9:19 p.m. local time (7:19 a ...

This later narrative was compelling enough to accelerate the post-tsunami recovery process. People in Aceh moved past the tsunami trauma by believing their deceased family members were martyrs who ...

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TOKYO -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U.S. Geological ...

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Chief Herald photographer Nick Moir flew into Banda Aceh the day after the Boxing Day tsunami ... on at the time were Andrew Meares and Dan Adams. The first earthquake at the ...

The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s preliminary magnitude at 6.8. TOKYO and LONDON -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake ...

Tsunami advisories were issued for Miyazaki Prefecture, where the quake was centered, in the southwestern island of Kyushu, as well as nearby Kochi Prefecture, in Shikoku island, shortly after the ...

More than 100,000 houses were rebuilt in the westernmost Indonesian province of Aceh alone, according to the Indonesian government. The tsunami also forced a reckoning about the preparedness of ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life making sure that if disaster strikes ...

It was a few minutes after 8am on December 26, 2004 when the tsunami slammed into the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh. Shortly after the 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Aceh province, 30 ...