The Moken, a group of indigenous people from Thailand and Myanmar, once sailed freely between the archipelago of 800 islands off the coast of the two countries.
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Sumatra, causing a massive wave that devastated ...
Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her ...
The northern side of Sumatra bore the brunt of the disaster with more than half of the total death toll reported.
Twenty years after the deadliest wave in recorded history, most oceans have warning systems and communities have learned how best to escape the danger.
STORY: The coastal town of Nagapattinam in southern India is scarred by tragedy.Twenty years ago, on December 26, 2004, a ...
Port disruptions are costly, very costly. While the 2011 Tohoku tsunami caused around $12 billion in damages to port ...
UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Ready Communities in the NEAM region mainly in Egypt (Alexandria), France (Cannes), Greece (Samos), Italy (Minturno), Spain (Chipiona) and Türkiye (Büyükçekmece). The 19th session ...
As an eight-year-old boy Pirun Kla-Talay was orphaned by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Now he makes his living from the ...
Tsunami-hit nations will next week commemorate the more than 220,000 people who died in the Boxing Day disaster two decades ...
In September, Indonesia launched the Disaster Prevention Information System (DPIS). When the country’s meteorological agency ...