Farther north, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake off the coast triggered a tsunami warning for parts of California and Oregon in early December. A tsunami didn’t come then, but the region’s proximity ...

Constructing permanent memorials after a disaster is a common trend in a modern society. Many tsunami monuments exist in Aceh, and some have even become tourist destinations. Tsunami monuments can ...

The resulting tsunami unleashed waves more than 100 feet high and as fast as an airliner. Within hours, the tsunami had claimed nearly 230,000 human lives and displaced millions of people in 12 ...

the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and Waseda University, Japan. On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people.

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 ...