In 2004, a 9.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, triggering a tsunami and series of tidal waves that became one of worst natural disasters in recorded history.

The 2004 earthquake itself was bad enough: At magnitude 9.1 — the world’s third-largest earthquake since 1900 — the earthquake released energy equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs.

Tsunami 2004: what are the ... some returned to the town before the second of the three tsunami waves hit. ... Twenty years ago, an undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, ...

Jakarta, Dec 26 (EFE).- Indonesia on Thursday remembered its 167,000 victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at the Sumatran city of Banda Aceh’s Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, one of the only ...

A powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on December 26 2004 triggered a tsunami that killed about 230,000 people across a dozen countries, reaching as ...

Jakarta, Dec 26 (IANS) Residents of Indonesia's Aceh province in the northern tip of Sumatra Island paid tribute on Thursday to relatives, family mem ...

Speeding tsunami warnings. In 2004, researchers did manage to issue a “rudimental” tsunami forecast, says Vasily Titov, a tsunami scientist at the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, one of the largest recorded earthquakes struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, heaving a piece of seafloor roughly the length of California about 36 feet sideways and 16 ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries.