BANGKOK (Reuters) - In April 2012, Indonesia's Banda Aceh, the city worst hit by the tsunami that killed at least 226,000 people on Boxing Day ten years ago, received a terrifying reminder of how ...

On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake struck near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, triggering a tsunami that barreled across the Pacific and killed 159 people on the island of Hawaii. In the ...

Berkeley, CA (Reuters) - When an earthquake strikes literally every second counts. That was the case 5 years ago when a magnitude 9 quake unleashed a massive tsunami that devastated Japan. A ...

Since the Indian Ocean tsunami, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission has been developing international tsunami warning systems in three areas: the Indian Ocean, the northeast Atlantic ...

KARACHI, Dec 25 Four years after a tsunami left some 150,000 people dead or missing in South Asia, Karachi remains at risk of the killer waves due to a lack of coordination between the district, ...

Indonesia's President says Asian countries have begun work to establish an early warning mechanism to prevent a repeat of the huge death toll from last week's devastating tsunami. "With other ...