Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...

At the time of the earthquake, there was no warning system in place in the Indian Ocean. But now, 1,400 stations globally cut warning times to just minutes after a tsunami wave forms. Experts said ...

Murty estimates an Indian Ocean warning system will cost between ... in the 2004 event tsunami waves pummeled the Sumatran coast for 12 hours following just five minutes of shaking.) ...

26 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The resulting tsunami struck nations in the Indian Ocean including Thailand and Sri Lanka and reached as far as Africa, killing an estimated 220,000-plus ...

Show more In 2004 a massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami. The Indonesian city ... and was devastated by the huge wave. Ten years on, reporter Candida Beveridge has ...

Experts reconstruct the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to prepare for the next big one. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the ...

A ‘tsunami’ wave moving faster than the speed a man could run brought devastation to the Gwent Levels hundreds of years ago.