People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive ...

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This week marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the ...

There is a long history of research experiments to generate earthquakes, tsunamis and climate disasters. As Partick J. Kiger wrote Between 1946 and 1958 the United States detonated 23 nuclear weapons ...

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old tsunami survivor, operates a coffee machine at the cafe she runs in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) Qurrata Ayuni ...

People play in the water at Ulee Lheue beach which was one of the areas hardest hit by Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, in Banda Aceh, Aceh Province, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo ...

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustained the brunt of the damage. Indonesian officials estimated that ...

such as the Aceh Tsunami Museum and the Tsunami Poles erected in over 50 locations across Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar. The establishment of disaster memorials is always political. Disaster monuments ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves.

The bodies of 15 men were discovered in 11 hidden graves in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, an area shaken by ongoing violence between two notorious drug cartels, local authorities said on ...

Officials said there are no tsunami threats to the state. However, residents who live near the area may feel aftershocks.