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

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.) ...

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 ...

Survivors and families of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia in ceremonies on Thursday to ...

At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day 2004, a major earthquake off the Western Coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a series of deadly tsunamis in the Indian Ocean that would go on to kill and injure ...

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 ...

"The highest wind speeds were observed in the western Indian Ocean near the Mentawai Islands, the northern Pacific Ocean near Papua, and the northern Pacific Ocean near West Papua," he said in a ...

The theory was confirmed by Sri Lankan scientist, Harindra Fernando, who was in Sri Lanka recently. “We created a model of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami wave in the lab and tested the effects of ...

For 200 years, the tectonic plates under the Indian Ocean have been pushing ... that spreads out in all directions. In the deep ocean, tsunami waves can reach speeds of up to 800 kilometres ...