The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, one of the deadliest events in recorded history, was an enigma to many survivors. Some experts were surprised to learn that a significant number of the people in the ...

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 ...

and the quake ruptured a fault line approximately 1,600 kilometres long beneath the Indian Ocean. Within minutes, the tremor triggered a series of massive tsunami waves that radiated outward at ...

People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean ... devastating wave in the country. The tsunami claimed ...

By Katrina Miller The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 ... that a significant number of the people in the path of those lethal waves had never heard of such a destructive phenomenon until it came ...

On Boxing Day – 26 December 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia, unleashing a massive tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean. Waves as high as 51 meters (167 feet) ...

the resulting tsunami reached the coastline of Indonesia's Aceh Province. Waves up to 50 metres high washed over the region, travelling across the Indian Ocean at the speed of a jet plane.

After 7 hours of travel across the Indian Ocean, the tsunami made landfall in Somalia. As with eastern India in the Bay of Bengal, ricocheting wave energy around the Arabian sea and Gulf of Aden led ...

The wave ripped him from his mother sow ... Part of the problem was that there was no tsunami warning center in the Indian Ocean. And the series follows a group of scientists who realize that ...

The seabed being ripped open pushed waves at double the speed of a bullet train, crossing the Indian Ocean within hours. The epicentre of the earthquake that triggered the tsunami was just 100 ...