The mystery over the tsunami that formed in the Pacific Ocean on Oct. 9 deepened as researchers found that a series of 13 tsunami were generated over 90 minutes on that day. The latter six tsunami ...
Head of UNESCO’s tsunami resilience programme, Bernado Aliaga, says it was a “wake-up call” for understanding the dangers of these events. “At the time, we were not completely aware of ...
We did not even know the word ‘tsunami’ at the time because, as far as I can remember, such an event had never happened [in Phuket] before,” he said. “The destruction was unimaginable.
Predicting exactly when such an event will happen is impossible, but few have come closer than Phil Cummins. He has been described as the person who “essentially predicted” the 2004 tsunami.