The Indonesian government plans to strengthen domestic housing construction standards to mitigate the impact of potential ...

The huge wave of water known as a tsunami, can be incredibly destructive as it surges onshore carrying all but the most solid objects inland.

( MENAFN - IANS) Jakarta, Jan 8 (IANS) The Indonesian government is planning to tighten housing construction standards ...

2004. Triggered by a massive underwater earthquake, the tsunami killed more than 170,000 lives in Indonesia alone and cause widespread destruction spanning more than a dozen countries. Indonesia ...

Just months before the tsunami, in August 2004, Cummins reiterated his concerns ... simulation to map a magnitude 8.8 to 9.2 underwater earthquake that hit off the coast of central Sumatra in ...

On December 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude underwater earthquake off Sumatra triggered a tsunami that ravaged 14 nations, killed over 230,000 people, displaced millions, and inflicted enormous economic ...

It has been 20 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ... 80 per cent of tsunamis are generated by earthquakes, they can also be triggered by underwater landslides and volcanoes.

Tsunamis are a hot topic in popular culture, lately. But is Florida ready for what some experts have warned for decades is ...

A day of celebration turned into a day of death and heartbreak after a huge underwater earthquake set off the deadly tsunami. At 00.59am GMT on December 26, 2004, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake struck ...

The terrible memories of the Asian tsunami of December 26, 2004 may never fade away from ... close to a score of underwater railway bridges had been examined for damage using specialist equipment ...